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The electoral district of Algester is an
electoral district of the
Legislative Assembly of Queensland
The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembl ...
in south-west
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
.
It includes the suburbs of
Algester,
Parkinson,
Hillcrest,
Boronia Heights,
Forestdale,
Larapinta,
Heathwood,
Forest Lake,
Doolandella and
Pallara, as well as the
Greenbank Military Range. It borders the electoral districts of
Sunnybank,
Stretton,
Logan,
Lockyer,
Bundamba
Bundamba is a suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the Bundamba had a population of 6,514 people.
Geography
The Bremer River forms the western part of the suburb's northern boundary. The Warrego Highway enter ...
and
Inala.
The Algester electoral district was created at the 1999 redistribution from the former
electoral district of Archerfield
Archerfield was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1972 to 2001.
The district was based in the south-western suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Archerfield.
Members for A ...
, and was contested for the first time at the
2001 election. It had been a safe seat for the
Labor Party since its inception, as had Archerfield, but it was won by
Anthony Shorten
Anthony Shorten (born 12 June 1969) is a former Australian Liberal National politician and a former Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He currently is a community advocate for the Logan region. In October 2023 he became a candidate ...
of the
Liberal National Party at the
2012 election
This national electoral calendar for 2012 lists the national/ federal elections held in 2012 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
January
*3–4 January: ...
.
Leeanne Enoch
Leeanne Margaret Enoch is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Communities and Housing and Minister for the Arts and Digital Economy of Queensland. She has also served as the Labor Party member for Algester in the Quee ...
won the seat back for Labor at the
2015 election. Enoch is the first Indigenous Australian woman elected to the Queensland parliament.
Members for Algester
Election results
References
{{Electoral districts of Queensland
Algester