The Division of Dickson is an Australian Electoral Division in

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, Australia. Dickson includes the suburbs of Kurwongbah,

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, Strathpine,

Albany Creek Albany Creek is a southern suburb in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Albany Creek had a population of 15,769 people. Geography Albany Creek is located approximately 17 kilometres north-west of the Brisbane central bus ...

, Ferny Hills,

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Murrumba Downs Murrumba Downs is a suburb in Moreton Bay Regional Council, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 Census, Murrumba Downs had a population of 10,795 people. Geography Murrumba Downs is located east of Kallangur on the Bruce Highway by road n ...

and parts of

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. The electorate also includes Lake Samsonvale and

Lake Kurwongbah The Sideling Creek Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam with an un-gated spillway across the Sideling Creek in Kurwongbah, Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. The main purposes of the dam are for potable water supply of the Moreton Bay ...

and covers 724 square kilometres.

History

The division was formed in 1992 and is named after Sir James Dickson, a leading advocate in

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and

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in the first Australian ministry.

1993 election

There was an unusual circumstance at the 1993 election. The seat had been carved out of most of the Brisbane portion of the Sunshine Coast-based seat of

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, making it a natural choice for that seat's Labor MP,

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, to transfer ahead of the 1993 election. However, one of the candidates, an independent, died very shortly before the election, making it necessary to hold a standalone 'supplementary election' on 17 April (the rest of the country had already voted on 13 March). Following Labor's reelection, the

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announced the makeup of the Second Keating ministry to be sworn in on 24 March, but kept the portfolio of

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open for Lavarch subject to him winning Dickson on 17 April. He won the seat, and was appointed to the ministry on 27 April.

Boundaries

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the

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. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. The division is located in the outer north-western suburbs of

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, including Albany Creek, Kallangur and Strathpine. The 2006 redistribution added the

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to and removed part of Kallangur from the seat. It has historically been a marginal seat, changing hands between the

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and the

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Members

Election results

References

External links

Division of Dickson (Qld)
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