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Kurwongbah
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Kurwongbah; Queensland—Legislative Assembly
	Map of Kurwongbah, 2017
State	Queensland
Dates current	1992–2009, 2017–present
MP	Shane King
Party	Labor Party
Namesake	Lake Kurwongbah
Electors	36,693 (2020)
Area	125 km2 (48.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer-metropolitan
Coordinates	27°13′04″S 152°56′20″E / 27.2177°S 152.9390°E
	Electorates around Kurwongbah:

Kurwongbah is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland which existed at first from 1992 to 2009, and was re-introduced for the 2017 state election. It is named after Lake Kurwongbah.The district is based in the City of Moreton Bay.^[1]

First incarnation

The first incarnation of the electoral district of Kurwongbah included the suburbs of Kurwongbah, Bray Park, Eatons Hill, Samsonvale and Strathpine. The seat was first contested at the 1992 state election, essentially as a reconfigured version of Pine Rivers.^[2]

In 2008, Kurwongbah was abolished—with effect at the 2009 state election—as a result of the redistribution undertaken by the Electoral Commission of Queensland. It was replaced by a recreated Pine Rivers, which is very similar in form to the old Kurwongbah.

Second incarnation

In the 2017 redistribution, Kurwongbah was created again, largely replacing the abolished seat of Kallangur. However, as the suburb of Kallangur is not in the new electorate, the electoral district needed to be renamed. It was named Kurwongbah after Lake Kurwongbah.^[1]

From results of the 2015 state election, Kurwongbah was estimated to be a safe seat for the Labor Party with a margin of 7.1% coming into the 2017 state election. The prediction was accurate as Labor won the seat.^[3]^[4]

Members for Kurwongbah

First incarnation (1992–2009)
Member		Party	Term
	Margaret Woodgate	Labor	1992–1997
	Linda Lavarch	Labor	1997–2009
Second incarnation (2017–present)
Member		Party	Term
	Shane King	Labor	2017–present

Election results

2024 Queensland state election: Kurwongbah^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Shane King	15,596	43.4	−8.4
	Liberal National	Tanya McKewen	12,123	33.7	+6.7
	Greens	Jordan Martin	3,006	8.4	+1.0
	One Nation	Christopher Leech	2,789	7.7	−1.3
	Family First	William Ross Pitt	1,575	4.4	+4.4
	Animal Justice	Gregory Dillon	883	2.4	−0.1
Total formal votes			35,972	96.4
Informal votes			1,347	3.6
Turnout			37,319
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Shane King	20,103	55.9	−7.3
	Liberal National	Tanya McKewen	15,869	44.1	+7.3
	Labor hold		Swing	-7.3