Division of Maranoa

Maranoa Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Maranoa in Queensland, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1901
MP	David Littleproud
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Maranoa, Queensland
Electors	102,861 (2016)
Area	731,297 km² (282,355.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural

The Division of Maranoa is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after the Maranoa River, which runs through the division. Located in the mostly rural southwestern portion of the state, towns located in Maranoa include Charleville, Cunnamulla, Dalby, Roma, Kingaroy, Stanthorpe, Winton and Warwick.

Maranoa is a comfortably safe seat for The Nationals; it was actually the first Queensland seat won by that party. It has been in National hands for all but three years since a 1921 by-election, and without interruption since 1943. Only two Labor MPs have ever won it. As a measure of how conservative this seat is, it was taken by the then-Country Party in 1943 despite a landslide Labor victory nationally--one of only seven seats won by the Country Party. Further underlining this, at the 2016 federal election, One Nation overtook Labor for second place after preferences were distributed even as Labor picked up a 14-seat swing nationally. In a traditional two-party matchup, Labor currently needs a 17-point swing to win it.

Members

	Party	Term
Jim Page	Labor	1901–1921
James Hunter	Country	1921–1940
Frank Baker	Labor	1940–1943
Charles Adermann	Country	1943–1949
Charles Russell	Country	1949–1950
Charles Russell	Independent	1950–1951
Wilfred Brimblecombe	Country	1951–1966
James Corbett	Country	1966–1980
Ian Cameron	National	1980–1990
Bruce Scott	National	1990–2010
Bruce Scott	Liberal National	2010–2016
David Littleproud	Liberal National	2016–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Maranoa

Australian federal election, 2016: Maranoa^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal National	David Littleproud	44,297	49.19	−8.23
	Labor	Dave Kerrigan	16,456	18.27	+1.98
	One Nation	Lynette Keehn	16,047	17.82	+17.82
	Katter's Australian	Rick Gurnett	4,306	4.78	−0.81
	Greens	Katherine Hompes	3,056	3.39	+0.32
	Family First	Myfanwy Schenk	2,905	3.23	+0.47
	CountryMinded	Luke Arbuckle	2,141	2.38	+2.38
	Rise Up Australia	Sherrilyn Church	841	0.93	−0.03
Total formal votes			90,049	94.47	−1.14
Informal votes			5,269	5.53	+1.14
Turnout			95,318	92.67	−1.73
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	David Littleproud	60,821	67.54	−4.74
	Labor	Dave Kerrigan	29,228	32.46	+4.74
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal National	David Littleproud	59,308	65.86	−6.42
	One Nation	Lynette Keehn	30,741	34.14	+34.14
	Liberal National hold		Swing	N/A

References

↑ Maranoa, QLD, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

Division of Maranoa (Qld) — Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Queensland

Blair Bonner Bowman Brisbane Capricornia Dawson Dickson Fadden Fairfax Fisher Flynn Forde Griffith Groom Herbert Hinkler Kennedy Leichhardt Lilley Longman Maranoa McPherson Moncrieff Moreton Oxley Petrie Rankin Ryan Wide Bay Wright Abolished: Darling Downs Oxley (1901–34)

Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

Coordinates: 25°48′25″S 144°43′05″E / 25.807°S 144.718°E / -25.807; 144.718

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