Electoral district of Woodridge

Woodridge is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.[1]

Woodridge
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Electoral map of Woodridge, 2017
StateQueensland
Dates current1977–present
MPCameron Dick
PartyLabor
NamesakeWoodridge
Electors36,787 (2020)
Area39 km2 (15.1 sq mi)
DemographicOuter-metropolitan
Coordinates27°39′S 153°6′E
Electorates around Woodridge:
Stretton Stretton Waterford
Algester Woodridge Waterford
Logan Logan Waterford
Electoral map of Woodridge, 2008

The district is based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane. It is named for the suburb of Woodridge and also takes in the suburbs of Crestmead, Kingston, Logan Central, Marsden and Slacks Creek. The electorate was first created for the 1977 election.

Woodridge has been held by the Labor Party for all but a few months of its existence, when Mike Kaiser briefly served as an independent after being forced to resign from the party for branch-stacking a decade earlier. Since the 1980s, it has usually been one of Labor's safest seats. The only time Labor came close to losing the seat at an election came during Labor's near-wipeout in 2012, in which incumbent Desley Scott saw her majority slashed from a comfortably safe 25.4 percent to a marginal 5.8 percent. Scott retired ahead of the 2015 election. Her replacement, former cabinet minister Cameron Dick, reverted the seat to its usual status as a comfortably safe Labor seat, ballooning the Labor majority to 25.9 percent—the safest seat in the entire legislature.

Members for Woodridge
MemberPartyTerm
  Bill D'Arcy Labor 1977–2000
  Mike Kaiser Labor 2000–2001
  Independent 2001–2001
  Desley Scott Labor 2001–2015
  Cameron Dick Labor 2015–present

Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the district of Woodridge
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Woodridge.[edit]
2020 Queensland state election: Woodridge[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Cameron Dick 18,935 66.97 +1.91
Liberal National Russell Bauer 4,249 15.03 −0.01
One Nation Lann Valentine 3,006 10.63 +10.63
Greens Valerie Bennett 2,084 7.37 −0.19
Total formal votes 28,274 94.54 +2.40
Informal votes 1,634 5.46 −2.40
Turnout 29,908 81.30 −0.70
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Cameron Dick 21,558 76.25 −0.12
Liberal National Russell Bauer 6,716 23.75 +0.12
Labor hold Swing−0.12

References
  1. "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2020.
  2. 2020 State General Election – Woodridge – District Summary, ECQ.
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