Electoral district of Toowoomba North

Toowoomba North
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Toowoomba North; Queensland—Legislative Assembly
	Electoral map of Toowoomba North 2017
State	Queensland
MP	Trevor Watts
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Toowoomba
Electors	37,423 (2020)
Area	111 km2 (42.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Provincial
Coordinates	27°30′S 151°58′E / 27.500°S 151.967°E
	Electorates around Toowoomba North:

Toowoomba North is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1972 redistribution. It replaced the abolished electorate of Toowoomba West. Toowoomba North is largely based around the upper half of the city of Toowoomba.^[1]

It covers the suburbs north of James Street, including Newtown, Wilsonton, Mount Lofty, etc. It also includes the urban fringe area of Blue Mountain Heights, the satellite town of Highfields and Spring Bluff. It excludes certain western localities of Toowoomba, which are in the Electoral district of Condamine.

The electorate is currently represented by Trevor Watts of the Liberal National Party of Queensland.

Members for Toowoomba North edit

	Party	Term
Ray Bousen	Labor	1972–1974
John Lockwood	Liberal	1974–1983
Sandy McPhie	National	1983–1989
John Flynn	Labor	1989–1992
Graham Healy	National	1992–2001
Kerry Shine	Labor	2001–2012
Trevor Watts	Liberal National	2012–present

Election results edit

2020 Queensland state election: Toowoomba North^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Trevor Watts	16,115	49.99	+7.80
	Labor	Megan O'Hara Sullivan	11,297	35.04	+2.02
	One Nation	Ron Humphrey	2,380	7.38	−7.28
	Greens	Alyce Nelligan	2,080	6.45	−0.08
	United Australia	Stella Sokolova	364	1.13	+1.13
Total formal votes			32,236	97.52	+1.13
Informal votes			819	2.48	−1.13
Turnout			33,055	88.33	+0.14
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Trevor Watts	18,479	57.32	+1.60
	Labor	Megan O'Hara Sullivan	13,757	42.68	−1.60
	Liberal National hold		Swing	+1.60

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

Liberal National

Country/National

Liberal

Labor

One Nation

Greens

Katter's Australian

City Country Alliance

Palmer United/United Australia Party

Australian Democrats

Queensland Labor

Independent

Two-party-preferred vote vote results in Toowoomba North

References edit

^ "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.
^ 2020 State General Election – Toowoomba North – District Summary, ECQ.

External links edit

Green, Antony (9 June 2023). "Electorate Profile". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

[qpe-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 – Toowoomba North – District Summary, ECQ.

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