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Electoral district of Townsville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Electoral district of Townsville

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Electoral district of Townsville is an electorate in the Legislative Assembly of the state of Queensland, Australia. The seat is one of four within the Townsville urban area in North Queensland, and covers the Eastern and Northern suburbs of the City of Townsville as well as Magnetic Island and Palm Island.[1]

Significant features in Townsville within the electorate are; The Strand, the Port of Townsville, Townsville Airport, RAAF Garbutt, Castle Hill, Museum of Tropical Queensland, Reef HQ, various administrative centres for Local, State and Federal Governments. Suburbs of Townsville within the Electorate include; Townsville, North Ward, Castle Hill, Belgian Gardens, West End, Hyde Park, Garbutt, Mt Louisa, Currajong, Railway Estate, South Townsville, Rowes Bay, Bohle and Pallarenda.[2]

Magnetic Island and Palm Island each have about 2500 residents[3][4], 93% of Palm Island's population is Indigenous[5].

Townsville Electorate is bordered by the Hinchinbrook (North), Burdekin (South), Mundingburra (South and West) and Thuringowa (West) Electorates.[6] With 26,595 voters, the Electorate is 5.94% smaller than the Queensland average[7] and therefore will probably increase in size in the upcoming redistribution.[8]

Townsville is currently a safe Labor Party seat, held by Hon Mike Reynolds MP, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

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[edit] History

The Electoral district of Townsville was created in 1878, in 1885 it was divided in two and then one year later it was remerged but it was determined that the reconstituted single Townsville Electorate would elect two representatives to the Legislative Assembly.[9]

Premier Robert Philp (Premier 1899-1903 and 1907-08) was elected as one of the two Townsville members when his previous Electorate of Musgrave absorbed. His parliamentary activity was mainly in support of North Queensland and his own business interests - extending railway links to North Queensland, and the abolition of import tariffs. When the import of Pacific Islanders was temporarily halted in 1892 Philp was instrumental in securing its resumption.

In 1912 the Electoral district of Mundingburra was created to accommodate for the return to universal single member electorates. 1923 saw the further reduction in size of the Electorate with the northern part of the city ceded to Kennedy and the southern part to Mundingburra, and in 1959 it was abolished and divided into the two electorates of South Townsville and North Townsville. The 1971 redistribution recreated the Electorate with new neighbours, Townsville West and Townsville South, Townsville included most of the Northern part of the City and some rural areas which were formerly in Hinchinbrook. The Electorate was reduced in size again in 1986 redistribution with a new neighbour of Townsville East. When Townsville East was abolished in 1991 Townsville Electorate gained land but lost land in the South-West corner to the newly re-created seat of Mundingburra.[9]

In 1998 Mike Reyolds was elected as the new Member for the Townsville Electorate taking over from retiring Labor Member Ken Geoff Smith and was immediately appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier in North Queensland. After increasing the Townsville margin in 2001 Mr. Reynolds was promoted to Cabinet as Minister for Emergency Services and Minister Assisting the Premier in North Queensland. In 2004 Mr. Reynolds was moved to the new Child Safety Ministry with Ministerial responsibilities for adoptions, child protection services, foster/kinship carers etc.

After increasing his margin by 9.5% primary vote towards Labor in the 2006 election, Mr. Reynolds was elected as Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly by the 52nd Parliament on 10 October 2006.

[edit] Members for Townsville

First incarnation (1878-1885, 1 member)
Member Party Term
  John Deane Unaligned 1878-1879
  John Macrossan Unaligned 1879-1885
Second incarnation (1885-1912, 2 members)
Member Party Term
  John Macrossan Unaligned 1885-1891
  William Brown Unaligned 1885-1888
  Sir Robert Philp Opposition/Ministerialist 1888-1912
  George Burns Ministerialist 1893
  Anthony Ogden Australian Labor Party 1894-1896
  William Castling Ministerialist 1896-1899
  Patrick Hanran Ministerialist 1899-1909
  Thomas Foley Australian Labor Party 1909-1912
Third incarnation (1912-1960, 1 member)
Member Party Term
  Sir Robert Philp Opposition/Ministerialist 1912-1915
  Daniel Ryan Australian Labor Party 1915-1920
  William Green Northern Country Party 1920-1923
  Maurice Hynes Australian Labor Party 1920-1923
  George Keyatta Australian Labor Party 1939-1960
Fourth incarnation (1972-present, 2 members)
Member Party Term
  Norman Scott-Young Liberal Party of Australia 1972-1983
  Ken McElligott Australian Labor Party 1983-1986
  Tony Burreket National Party of Australia 1986-1989
  Ken Davies Australian Labor Party 1989-1992
  Geoff Smith Australian Labor Party 1992-1998
  Mike Reynolds Australian Labor Party 1998-present

[edit] Results - 2006 election

Registered Voters 26,144 Fairly Safe Labor
Votes Cast 22,621 Turnout % 86.52 -1.75
Informal Votes 526 Informal % 2.33 +0.08
Party Candidate Primary Votes % Swing%
  Liberal Jessica Weber 7,858 35.56 +3.21
  Labor Mike Reynolds 11,438 51.77 +9.33 Elected
  Steve Todeschini 1,288 5.83 +5.83
  Queensland Greens John Boucher 1,511 6.84 -6.18
Total 22,095
Two Candidate Preferred
  Liberal Party of Australia Jessica Weber 8,480 40.90 -3.61
  Australian Labor Party Mike Reynolds 12,255 59.10 +3.61 Elected
Total 20,735 [10][11][12]
Billboard from 2006 Election with Castle Hill in background
Billboard from 2006 Election with Castle Hill in background

Booth of interest:

Booth 14 Palm Island[11]

votes  %
WEBER, Jessica LIB 67 11.20%
REYNOLDS, Mike ALP 482 80.60%
TODESCHINI, Steve 9 1.51%
BOUCHER, John GRN 40 6.69%
Total Formal 598
Informal votes 17 2.76%
Total 615
% of Total Electoral district 2.72

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