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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Petrie, Queensland
Northern Brisbane: Bald Hills, Bracken Ridge, Deception Bay, Redcliffe
Sitting member: Luke Howarth (Liberal), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 105,492
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 0.5%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Cath Buckley
Liberal Democratic Party |
2. Luke Howarth
Liberal Party |
3. Jacqui Pedersen
Australian Labor Party |
4. Mark White
Family First |
5. Sue Weber
Australian Greens |
6. Andrew Tyrrell
The Arts Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Petrie was created in 1949, and has changed very little since, consisting of a corridor of northern suburbs running out to the Redcliffe Peninsula. Recent redistributions have moved the seat northward, taking in Deception Bay while shedding Chermside and Stafford to the south. Petrie has a stable, home-owning and ageing population, with a very low proportion of families with dependent children for a suburban seat. It has always been a marginal seat, which Labor won in 1961 and 1983, and from 1987 to 1996.
Teresa Gambaro won the seat for the Liberals in 1996 and was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Howard Government. She was defeated in the Rudd sweep of Queensland in 2007 (in 2010 she returned as MP for Brisbane). Labor's Yvette D'Ath was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Rudd-Gillard Government. She was re-elected 2010 but very narrowly defeated in 2013. (She landed on her feet by winning a state by- election in 2014, and is now Queensland Attorney-General.)
Luke Howarth, Liberal MP for Petrie since 2013, was a company director of a family business before entering politics. The Labor candidate is Jacqui Pedersen, community development officer at Moreton Bay Regional Council. Howarth has the second-smallest majority of any sitting Liberal member, and this seat will be close to the top of Labor's target list.
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