Electoral district of Clayfield

Clayfield
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Map of the electoral district of Clayfield, 2017
StateQueensland
MPTim Nicholls
PartyLiberal National
NamesakeClayfield
Electors40,218 (2020)
Area71 km2 (27.4 sq mi)
DemographicInner-metropolitan
Coordinates27°24′S 153°6′E / 27.400°S 153.100°E / -27.400; 153.100
Electorates around Clayfield:
Stafford Nudgee Moreton Bay
Stafford Clayfield Lytton
McConnel Bulimba Lytton
2008 map

Clayfield is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. It is centred on the inner northern suburb of Clayfield in the state capital of Brisbane.

The seat was first created in 1950, and consistently returned members for the Liberal Party until its abolition in 1977. The bulk of the seat was merged into nearby Merthyr.[1]

It was recreated in 1992 as part of the electoral reforms that ended the malapportionment of the Bjelke-Petersen era. Although it was created as a notionally Labor seat, it was located in ancestrally Liberal territory. The bulk of the seat came from the abolished Merthyr, and its last member, Liberal Santo Santoro, won the seat on a four percent swing. Santoro would go on to serve as a minister in the Borbidge government. Santoro was re-elected in 1996 and 1998, but was defeated in a shock result in 2001 by actress and Labor candidate Liddy Clark. Clark held on to the seat for two terms, but after a controversy-scarred term as a minister, was defeated by Liberal candidate Tim Nicholls in 2006.

A redistribution in 2008 made Clayfield notionally Labor by 0.2%, but the Liberal National Party achieved a swing strong enough for Nicholls to retain his seat in the 2009 election.

Nicholls was the last deputy leader of the state Liberal Party from 2007 to 2009, served as state Treasurer in the Newman government, and was leader of the LNP from 2016 to 2017.

Members for Clayfield

First incarnation (1950–1977)
Member Party Term
  Harold Taylor Liberal 1950–1963
  John Murray Liberal 1963–1976
  Ivan Brown Liberal 1976–1977
Second incarnation (1992–present)
Member Party Term
  Santo Santoro Liberal 1992–2001
  Liddy Clark Labor 2001–2006
  Tim Nicholls Liberal 2006–2008
  Liberal National 2008–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Clayfield
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Queensland state election § Clayfield.[edit]
2024 Queensland state election: Clayfield[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Tim Nicholls 16,564 48.1 +2.2
Labor Belle Brookfield 10,070 29.3 −2.8
Greens Jaimyn Mayer 5,863 17.0 −0.6
One Nation Michelle Wilde 1,074 3.1 +0.8
Libertarian Nick Buick 861 2.5 +2.5
Total formal votes 34,432 98.1
Informal votes 651 1.9
Turnout 35,083
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Tim Nicholls 18,638 54.1 +2.6
Labor Belle Brookfield 15,794 45.9 −2.6
Liberal National hold Swing +2.6
Results are not final. Last updated on 30 October 2024.
Primary vote results in Clayfield (Parties that have never gotten 5% of the vote are omitted)
  Liberal/Liberal National
  Labor
  Greens
  Katter's Australian
  Australian Democrats
  Independent
Two-party-preferred vote results in Clayfield

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. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Clayfield - QLD Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 27 October 2024. Retrieved 30 October 2024.