Electoral district of Warrego

Warrego; Queensland—Legislative Assembly
	Electoral map of Warrego 2017
State	Queensland
Created	1865
MP	Ann Leahy
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Warrego River
Electors	29,307 (2020)
Area	337,812 km2 (130,429.9 sq mi)
Coordinates	26°52′S 146°9′E / 26.867°S 146.150°E
	Electorates around Warrego:

2008 Electoral map of Warrego

Warrego is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.

The electorate lies in the extreme southwest of Queensland, running along the western part of the border with New South Wales. It includes the large town of Dalby, as well as the rural centres of Surat, Roma, Tara, Charleville, Augathella, St George and Cunnamulla.

History

The electoral district of Warrego was created by the Additional Members Act of 1864 which introduced six new single-member electorates.^[1] A by-election was held to fill the seat. The nomination date was 18 March 1865 and the election was held on 25 March 1865.^[2]

Warrego was, as with the rest of the state, held by independents and loose groupings of members around the government of the day until the first years of the twentieth century, when the partisan system took hold. It then became a stronghold of the centre-left Labor Party, which held it without interruption from 1908 to 1974. The decline of the rural working class gradually changed the demographics of the electorate, however, and it fell to the conservative National Party in 1974, at the height of the popularity of the Bjelke-Petersen government. The National Party significantly increased its hold on the electorate thereafter, and it is today one of the party's safest seats. The current member, Ann Leahy, has held the seat since 2015.

Members for Warrego

	Party	Term
Frederick Forbes	Unaligned	1865–1867
Graham Mylne	Unaligned	1867–1868
Sir Arthur Hodgson	Unaligned	1868–1869
Sir Thomas McIlwraith	Ministerialist	1870–1871
Archibald Buchanan	Ministerialist	1871–1873
William Henry Walsh	Ministerialist	1873–1878
Ernest James Stevens	Independent	1878–1883
John Donaldson	Independent/Ministerialist	1883–1888
Richard Casey	Unaligned	1888–1893
James Crombie	Ministerialist	1893–1898
William Hood	Ministerialist	1898–1899
David Bowman	Labour	1899–1902
Patrick Leahy	Ministerialist/Opposition	1902–1907
George Barber	Labour	1907
Patrick Leahy	Ministerialist/Opposition	1907–1908
Harry Coyne	Labor	1908–1923
Randolph Bedford	Labor	1923–1941
Harry O'Shea	Labor	1941–1950
John Dufficy	Labor	1951–1969
Jack Aiken	Labor	1969–1974
Neil Turner	National	1974–1986
Howard Hobbs	National	1986–2008
Howard Hobbs	Liberal National	2008–2015
Ann Leahy	Liberal National	2015–present

Election results

2020 Queensland state election: Warrego^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Ann Leahy	14,100	55.98	+8.35
	Labor	Mark O'Brien	4,966	19.72	−1.97
	Katter's Australian	Rick Gurnett	2,842	11.28	−9.96
	One Nation	Joshua Coyne	2,224	8.83	+8.83
	Greens	Joshua Sanderson	569	2.26	−0.83
	Independent	Mark Stone	487	1.93	−1.51
Total formal votes			25,188	97.97	+2.17
Informal votes			521	2.03	−2.17
Turnout			25,709	87.72	−0.71
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Ann Leahy	18,424	73.15	+13.69
	Labor	Mark O'Brien	6,764	26.85	+26.85
	Liberal National hold

References

^ "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
^ "NON-INFECTIOUSNESS OF PLEURO-PNEUMONIA". The Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser. Toowoomba, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 1 February 1865. p. 4. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
^ 2020 State General Election – Warrego – District Summary, ECQ.

External links

Green, Antony. "Electorate Profile". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

[qpe-1] "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.

[2] "NON-INFECTIOUSNESS OF PLEURO-PNEUMONIA". The Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser. Toowoomba, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 1 February 1865. p. 4. Retrieved 11 March 2014.

[3] 2020 State General Election – Warrego – District Summary, ECQ.

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