Electoral district of Broadwater

Broadwater
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Broadwater; Queensland—Legislative Assembly
	Map of the electoral district of Broadwater, 2017
State	Queensland
MP	David Crisafulli
Party	Liberal National Party
Namesake	Nerang River Estuary
Electors	35,120 (2020)
Area	130 km2 (50.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner-metropolitan
Coordinates	27°51′S 153°24′E / 27.850°S 153.400°E
	Electorates around Broadwater:

Broadwater is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created at the 1991 redistribution.^[1]

The electorate is based on the northern end of the Gold Coast. It includes South Stradbroke Island as well as Labrador, Paradise Point, Runaway Bay and Sanctuary Cove and Coombabah.

Since 2017 the local member has been David Crisafulli, who is the leader of the Liberal National Party and the state's Opposition Leader.

Members for Broadwater edit

2020 Queensland state election: Broadwater^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	David Crisafulli	18,059	59.59	+11.11
	Labor	Maureen Simpson	8,041	26.53	+3.27
	One Nation	Jesse Schneider	1,796	5.93	−15.48
	Greens	April Broadbent	1,583	5.22	−1.63
	United Australia	Mara Krischker	441	1.46	+1.46
	Informed Medical Options	Natalie O'Donnell	386	1.27	+1.27
Total formal votes			30,306	96.79	+0.59
Informal votes			1,004	3.21	−0.59
Turnout			31,310	89.15	+2.78
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	David Crisafulli	20,174	66.57	−1.41
	Labor	Maureen Simpson	10,132	33.43	+1.41
	Liberal National hold		Swing	−1.41

Primary vote results in Broadwater (Parties that have never gotten 5% of the vote are omitted)

Liberal National

Liberal

National

Labor

Greens

One Nation

Palmer United/United Australia Party

Katter's Australian

Two-party-preferred vote vote results in Broadwater