Electoral district of Inala

Inala
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Electoral map of Inala 2017
State Queensland
MP Annastacia Palaszczuk
Party Labor
Namesake The suburb of Inala
Electors 33,367 (2017)
Area 48 km2 (18.5 sq mi)
Coordinates 27°37′S 152°57′E / 27.617°S 152.950°E / -27.617; 152.950Coordinates: 27°37′S 152°57′E / 27.617°S 152.950°E / -27.617; 152.950
Electorates around Inala:
Moggill Mount Ommaney Miller
Bundamba Inala Algester
Jordan Jordan Algester
Electoral map of Inala 2008

The electoral district of Inala is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in south-west Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Inala, Ellen Grove, Carole Park, Camira, Gailes, Wacol, Darra, and Richlands. It borders the electoral districts of Mount Ommaney, Yeerongpilly, Sunnybank, Algester, Bundamba, and Moggill.[1]

The Inala electoral district was created in the 1990 redistribution as part of the one vote one value reforms under Wayne Goss, and was contested for the first time at the 1992 election.

For its entire existence, it has been held by the Labor Party. Henry Palaszczuk, the seat's first member, transferred from Archerfield to Inala upon Inala's creation in 1992. He went on to become a senior minister in the Beattie government. Henry retired in 2006 and handed the seat to his daughter and current member, Annastacia Palaszczuk, who has been the Premier of Queensland since 2015.

For most of its existence, Inala has been a comfortably safe Labor seat, and on several occasions it was the safest Labor seat in the state. The only time the Labor hold on Inala was seriously threatened was in 2012, when Annastacia suffered a 14-point swing, reducing her majority to 6.2 percent. The seat reverted to form in 2015, as Palaszczuk's majority ballooned to 25 percent, the second-safest seat in the entire chamber.

Members for Inala

MemberPartyTerm
  Henry Palaszczuk Labor 1992–2006
  Annastacia Palaszczuk Labor 2006–present

Election results

Queensland state election, 2017: Inala[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Annastacia Palaszczuk 18,558 68.0 +3.7
Liberal National Leanne McFarlane 5,651 20.7 −7.0
Greens Nav Singh Sidhu 3,097 11.3 +3.9
Total formal votes 27,306 92.8 −5.1
Informal votes 2,105 7.2 +5.1
Turnout 29,411 86.6 +0.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Annastacia Palaszczuk 20,778 76.1 +5.5
Liberal National Leanne McFarlane 6,528 23.9 −5.5
Labor hold Swing +5.5

References

  1. ↑ "State District Map of Inala" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  2. ↑ 2017 State General Election - Inala - District Summary, ECQ.
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