Electoral district of Aspley

Aspley is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.[1]

Aspley
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Map of the electoral district of Aspley, 2017
StateQueensland
Dates current1960–present
MPBart Mellish
PartyLabor
NamesakeAspley
Electors36,294 (2017)
Area32 km2 (12.4 sq mi)
Coordinates27°20′S 153°0′E
Electorates around Aspley:
Pine Rivers Pine Rivers Murrumba
Everton Aspley Sandgate
Everton Stafford Nudgee
2008 map of Aspley

The district is located in the north-eastern residential suburbs of Brisbane, encompassing Aspley, Bridgeman Downs, and Carseldine, as well as parts of McDowall, Chermside West, Lawnton, and Zillmere. It is now wholly within the local government area of Brisbane City Council, following the redistribution prior to the 2009 election.

The electorate was created at the 1959 redistribution from the former electorate of Chermside. Aspley was a safe Liberal seat until the collapse of the National-Liberal coalition in Queensland in 1983, when first-term Liberal member Beryce Nelson lost the seat to the Nationals' Brian Cahill a former local newsreader. Nelson then joined the Nationals and was subsequently preselected to contest Aspley at the 1986 election. She won and held the seat for that term and then was defeated by the Liberals' John Goss in 1989. Goss was defeated by Labor's Bonny Barry in Labor's landslide victory at the 2001 state election. Barry was herself defeated after three terms by Tracy Davis of the Liberal National Party at the 2009 state election. Davis was defeated at the 2017 state election by Labor's Bart Mellish.

Members for Aspley
MemberPartyTerm
  Fred Campbell Liberal 1960–1980
  Beryce Nelson Liberal 1980–1983
  Brian Cahill National 1983–1986
  Beryce Nelson National 1986–1989
  John Goss Liberal 1989–2001
  Bonny Barry Labor 2001–2009
  Tracy Davis Liberal National 2009–2017
  Bart Mellish Labor 2017–present

Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the district of Aspley
2017 Queensland state election: Aspley[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal National Tracy Davis 12,757 39.7 −10.3
Labor Bart Mellish 12,046 37.5 −1.8
One Nation Shaun Byrne 3,081 9.6 +9.6
Greens James Hansen 3,037 9.5 −0.1
Independent Zachary King 494 1.5 +1.5
Consumer Rights Neil Skilbeck 458 1.4 +1.4
Independent Steve Ross 235 0.7 +0.7
Total formal votes 32,108 96.2 −2.1
Informal votes 1,278 3.8 +2.1
Turnout 33,386 90.5 −0.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Bart Mellish 16,430 51.2 +4.3
Liberal National Tracy Davis 15,678 48.8 −4.3
Labor gain from Liberal National Swing+4.3

References
  1. "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
  2. 2017 State General Election - Aspley - District Summary Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine, ECQ.
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