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Electoral district of Hinchinbrook

Electoral district of Hinchinbrook

State electoral district of Queensland, Australia


Hinchinbrook is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.[1] It is currently represented by Nick Dametto, of Katter's Australian Party.

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2008 map of Hinchinbrook

Geography

Originally primarily a rural electorate, the district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from south of Tully to the northern fringes of Townsville. Prior to the 2017 redistribution Hinchinbrook had spanned just south of Innisfail and included the towns of Mission Beach and Tully. Hinchinbrook now includes the towns of Cardwell, Ingham, Lucinda and includes the Northern Beaches suburbs of Townsville such as Bushland Beach.

Political history

The electorate was first contested in 1950 and was held by the National Party and its successor, the Liberal National Party, for over half a century. However, even as the LNP won a landslide victory in 2012, its hold on Hinchinbrook became rather tenuous amid the rise of Katter's Australian Party, with longtime MP Andrew Cripps suffering an 11 percent swing. At the 2017 state election, Nick Dametto, a member of Katter's Australian Party defeated Cripps with a large swing which he consolidated at the 2020 election.

Members for Hinchinbrook

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Election results

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References

  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. The notional two-party-preferred figure is manually calculated using statewide preference flows.

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