Electoral district of Redcliffe

Redcliffe is a Legislative Assembly of Queensland electoral division in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Redcliffe Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Electoral map of Redcliffe 2017
State	Queensland
MP	Yvette D'Ath
Party	Labor
Namesake	Redcliffe
Electors	38,589 (2020)
Area	200 km2 (77.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer-metropolitan
Coordinates	27°12′S 153°16′E
Electorates around Redcliffe: Moreton Bay Moreton Bay Coral Sea Murrumba Redcliffe Coral Sea Moreton Bay Moreton Bay Coral Sea

Electoral map of Redcliffe 2008

The division encompasses suburbs to the north and northeast of Brisbane, including Redcliffe, Woody Point, Scarborough, Clontarf and Margate, as well as parts of Kippa-Ring. The electorate's boundary stretches to take in Moreton Island.

History

The seat was created in 1960 and was first held by Liberal (later National) member Jim Houghton. The seat was contested between the Liberal and National Parties until Houghton's mid-term retirement in 1979, followed by a by-election won by Liberal Terry White. White became the Liberal Party leader in August 1983, causing a split in the National-dominated coalition government. In 1989, he lost the seat to Labor Party member Ray Hollis, who at one point was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. In 2005, Hollis resigned and the Liberals' Terry Rogers, a local accountant, picked up the seat in a by-election upset, with an 8.4% swing. However, his tenure in the seat was short, and he lost it to Labor's Lillian van Litsenburg, a school teacher, at the 2006 state election.

Scott Driscoll, president of the United Retail Federation and a local resident born in Redcliffe, contested the seat for the Liberal National Party of Queensland at the 2012 state election, winning with a 15.67% swing. In March 2013 Premier Campbell Newman suspended Driscoll from the Liberal National Party, due to allegations that the MP had misled parliament about his business interests. The month after his suspension, Driscoll announced his resignation from the LNP, and committed to serve the remainder of his parliamentary term on the cross-bench. On 18 November 2013, the parliamentary Ethics Committee found Driscoll guilty of ethics violations and recommended his expulsion. He resigned the next day, citing ill health, though it was a near-certainty that he would have been voted out. This triggered a by-election on 22 February 2014, in which Yvette D'Ath reclaimed the seat for Labor. D'Ath formerly held the federal seat of Petrie, which is based on Redcliffe. She won 57.1% of the two-party preferred vote making it the safest ALP seat in the Queensland Parliament.

Members for Redcliffe

Member		Party	Term
	Jim Houghton	Independent	1960–1960
		Liberal	1960–1961
		Independent	1961–1962
		Country	1963–1974
		National	1974–1979
	Terry White	Liberal	1979–1989
	Ray Hollis	Labor	1989–2005
	Terry Rogers	Liberal	2005–2006
	Lillian van Litsenburg	Labor	2006–2012
	Scott Driscoll	Liberal National	2012–2013
		Independent	2013
	Yvette D'Ath	Labor	2014–2024
	Kerri-Anne Dooley	Liberal National	2024–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Redcliffe

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Redcliffe.[edit]

2020 Queensland state election: Redcliffe

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Yvette D'Ath	15,371	46.93	+1.73
	Liberal National	Kerri-Anne Dooley	12,231	37.34	+0.10
	Greens	Will Simon	2,364	7.22	−0.76
	One Nation	Virginia Davy	1,427	4.36	+4.36
	Independent	Ian Philp	694	2.12	−1.43
	Independent	Carolyn Kerr	352	1.07	+1.07
	United Australia	Bob Blohberger	314	0.96	+0.96
Total formal votes			32,753	96.91	+1.57
Informal votes			1,044	3.09	−1.57
Turnout			33,797	87.58	−0.04
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Yvette D'Ath	18,377	56.11	+1.25
	Liberal National	Kerri-Anne Dooley	14,376	43.89	−1.25
	Labor hold		Swing	+1.25

External links

• Green, Antony. "Electorate Profile". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
• [1] (Kelmeny Fraser, Mark Solomons, The Courier-Mail)