Electoral district of Brisbane Central

Brisbane Central
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Brisbane Central; Queensland—Legislative Assembly
	Brisbane Central (2008–2017)
State	Queensland
Dates current	1977–2017
MP	Several
Party	Labor (4 times); Liberal National (once);
Namesake	Brisbane CBD
Electors	34,465 (2015)
Area	18 km2 (6.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner-metropolitan
Coordinates	27°27′S 153°2′E / 27.450°S 153.033°E

Brisbane Central was an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.^[1]

The electorate covered the central portion of Brisbane, including the Brisbane central business district as well as the inner suburbs of Bowen Hills, Fortitude Valley, Herston, Kelvin Grove, Spring Hill, New Farm, Newmarket and Windsor. It was bordered on the east and south by the Brisbane River.

History edit

The Town of Brisbane was one of the original electorates established by Order-in-Council in 1859. Since then, the name of the electorate covering what is now the CBD of Brisbane has been variously known as Brisbane City, North Brisbane, Brisbane North and Brisbane (from 1912). Brisbane Central was created in 1977 and was held from 1989 to 2007 by Labor's Peter Beattie, who was Premier of Queensland from 1998. Beattie resigned as both Premier and Member for Brisbane Central and a 2007 Brisbane Central by-election was held. The seat was won by Labor candidate Grace Grace.

In the 2017 electoral redistribution, the Electoral Commission of Queensland changed the name of the electorate to McConnel.^[2]

^ "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. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
^ Queensland Redistribution Commission (26 May 2017). "Determination of Queensland's Legislative Assembly Electoral Districts" (PDF). Queensland Government Gazette. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.