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Electoral district of Bulimba

State electoral district of Queensland, Australia

Summary

State electoral district of Queensland, Australia

Field	Value
federal		state = qld
upper		image = Map of the electoral district of Bulimba, 2017.pdf
caption	Map of the electoral district of Bulimba, 2017
lifespan	1873–present
mp	Di Farmer
mp-party	Labor
namesake	Bulimba
electors	39571
electors_year	2020
area	29
class	Inner-metropolitan
coordinates
near-n	Clayfield
near-ne	Clayfield
near-e	Lytton
near-se	Chatsworth
near-s	Chatsworth
near-sw	Greenslopes
near-w	South Brisbane
near-nw	McConnel

Bulimba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.

The electorate covers the inner eastern suburbs of Brisbane. It is bounded on the north and the west by the Brisbane River and, as at the 2009 election, covers the suburbs of Bulimba, Balmoral, Cannon Hill, Hawthorne, Morningside, Norman Park, Murarrie and Seven Hills. The boundaries have changed relatively little since 1923; prior to that, the boundaries extended as far east as Wynnum and as far south-east as Mount Gravatt and Cleveland.

History

Bulimba has existed continuously since the 1873 election, originally covering most of the outer south-east of Brisbane.

Since the 1923 redistribution, Bulimba has strongly supported Labor. The Labor Party (ALP) held the seat on all but six terms and, of those, 3 were held by an independent Labor candidate and one by a member of the Queensland Labor Party. As a measure of how strongly pro-Labor the seat has been, it was one of the eleven seats Labor retained in the Coalition landslide of 1974, at which Labor was cut down to a "cricket team" of only 11 members.

In the 1929 election Bulimba returned Queensland's first woman Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (MLA), Irene Longman of the Country and Progressive National Party, for one term.

Although ALP candidate Robert Gardner was elected in Bulimba in the 1950 election, the close result caused close scrutiny of the votes and revealed that fraudulent votes had been cast in Gardner's favour. The election was ruled void, but Gardner himself was cleared of any involvement in the fraud. The scandal and the investigations into the fraud continued for many months. Finally, a by-election was held on 14 April 1951 (almost 12 months after the original election) with the ballot boxes under police guard. Gardner won the by-election by a narrow margin.

Prior to the 1957 election, Gardner and 21 other Labor MLAs under the leadership of Premier Vince Gair left the ALP to form the Queensland Labor Party (QLP). Gardner was defeated by Jack Houston of the regular ALP, who held the seat until 1980 and was the state's Opposition Leader from 1966 until 1974.

In the 2012 election, Liberal National candidate Aaron Dillaway was elected. In the 2015 election, Bulimba was the most marginal seat held by the LNP and was regained by Di Farmer of the ALP.

Members for Bulimba

Member	Party	Term
		William Hemmant
		James Johnston
		George Grimes
		Frederick Swanwick
		John Francis Buckland	Liberal
		James Dickson	Independent
		Ministerial	1896–1901
		Walter Barnes	Ministerial
		Conservative	1903–1909
		Liberal	1909–1915
		Hugh McMinn	Labor
National QLD 1917}}		Walter Barnes	National
United	1922–1923
		Harry Wright	Labor
		Irene Longman	Country and Progressive National
		William Copley	Labor
		George Marriott	Labor
		Independent Labor	1941–1950
		Bob Gardner	Labor
		Queensland Labor	1957
		Jack Houston	Labor
		Ron McLean	Labor
		Pat Purcell	Labor
		Di Farmer	Labor
		Aaron Dillaway	Liberal National
		Di Farmer	Labor

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Bulimba

References

{{Cite QldElectorate
(4 January 1951). "KEEN VOTES WATCH.". National Library of Australia.
(31 January 1951). "BULIMBA FRAUD.". National Library of Australia.
(16 April 1951). "Election count continues.". National Library of Australia.
(21 April 1951). "BULIMBA MAJORITY STANDS TO END.". National Library of Australia.

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