Stretton Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Electoral map of Stretton 2017 | |||||||||||||||
State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
MP | James Martin | ||||||||||||||
Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
Namesake | Stretton | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 33,961 (2021) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 41 km2 (15.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Demographic | Outer-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 27°37′S 153°4′E / 27.617°S 153.067°E | ||||||||||||||
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Stretton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.[1]
The district is based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane. It is named for the suburb of Stretton and also includes the suburbs of Calamvale, Eight Mile Plains, Kuraby, Sunnybank Hills and Underwood. It was first contested at the 2001 state election.
Member | Party | Term | |
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Stephen Robertson | Labor | 2001–2012 | |
Freya Ostapovitch | Liberal National | 2012–2015 | |
Duncan Pegg | Labor | 2015–2021 | |
James Martin | Labor | 2021–present |
Main article: Electoral results for the district of Stretton |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | James Martin | 14,314 | 56.39 | −0.20 | |
Liberal National | Jim Bellos | 8,322 | 32.78 | +2.58 | |
Greens | Andrea Wildin | 1,654 | 6.52 | −2.20 | |
Informed Medical Options | Jasmine Melhop | 616 | 2.43 | +2.43 | |
Animal Justice | Suzanne Clarke | 478 | 1.88 | +1.88 | |
Total formal votes | 25,384 | 96.61 | +0.03 | ||
Informal votes | 891 | 3.39 | −0.03 | ||
Turnout | 26,275 | 77.37 | −10.43 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | James Martin | 16,244 | 63.94 | −0.87 | |
Liberal National | Jim Bellos | 9,160 | 36.06 | +0.87 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −0.87 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Duncan Pegg | 16,128 | 56.59 | +5.98 | |
Liberal National | Peter Zhuang | 8,609 | 30.21 | +1.83 | |
Greens | Andrea Wildin | 2,483 | 8.71 | +1.30 | |
One Nation | Alexey Chekhunov | 1,280 | 4.49 | −7.38 | |
Total formal votes | 28,500 | 96.58 | +1.55 | ||
Informal votes | 1,010 | 3.42 | −1.55 | ||
Turnout | 29,510 | 87.80 | +0.64 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Duncan Pegg | 18,473 | 64.82 | +4.93 | |
Liberal National | Peter Zhuang | 10,027 | 35.18 | −4.93 | |
Labor hold | Swing | +4.93 |