| Kurwongbah Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Map of Kurwongbah, 2017
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| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1992–2009, 2017–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Shane King | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor Party | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Lake Kurwongbah | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 36,693 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 125 km2 (48.3 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Outer-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°13′04″S 152°56′20″E / 27.2177°S 152.9390°E / -27.2177; 152.9390 | ||||||||||||||
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Kurwongbah is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland which existed at first from 1992 to 2009, and was re-introduced for the 2017 state election. It is named after Lake Kurwongbah.The district is based in the City of Moreton Bay.[1]
The first incarnation of the electoral district of Kurwongbah included the suburbs of Kurwongbah, Bray Park, Eatons Hill, Samsonvale and Strathpine. The seat was first contested at the 1992 state election, essentially as a reconfigured version of Pine Rivers.[2]
In 2008, Kurwongbah was abolished—with effect at the 2009 state election—as a result of the redistribution undertaken by the Electoral Commission of Queensland. It was replaced by a recreated Pine Rivers, which is very similar in form to the old Kurwongbah.
In the 2017 redistribution, Kurwongbah was created again, largely replacing the abolished seat of Kallangur. However, as the suburb of Kallangur is not in the new electorate, the electoral district needed to be renamed. It was named Kurwongbah after Lake Kurwongbah.[1]
From results of the 2015 state election, Kurwongbah was estimated to be a safe seat for the Labor Party with a margin of 7.1% coming into the 2017 state election. The prediction was accurate as Labor won the seat.[3][4]
| First incarnation (1992–2009) | |||
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| Member | Party | Term | |
| Margaret Woodgate | Labor | 1992–1997 | |
| Linda Lavarch | Labor | 1997–2009 | |
| Second incarnation (2017–present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Shane King | Labor | 2017–present | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labor | Shane King | 16,243 | 51.79 | +10.40 | |
| Liberal National | Kerry Petrus | 8,460 | 26.98 | +2.50 | |
| One Nation | Kim Attrill | 2,834 | 9.04 | −12.76 | |
| Greens | Earl Snijders | 2,317 | 7.39 | −1.12 | |
| Animal Justice | Heather Dwane | 787 | 2.51 | +2.51 | |
| Independent | Thor Prohaska | 721 | 2.30 | −1.53 | |
| Total formal votes | 31,362 | 96.34 | +0.77 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,192 | 3.66 | −0.77 | ||
| Turnout | 32,554 | 88.72 | −0.36 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Shane King | 19,804 | 63.15 | +6.15 | |
| Liberal National | Kerry Petrus | 11,558 | 36.85 | −6.15 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +6.15 | |||
