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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Wright, Queensland
South and west of Brisbane: Beaudesert, Boonah, Gatton, Mudgeeraba
Sitting member: Scott Buchholtz (Liberal), elected 2010
Enrolment at close of rolls: 100,035
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.8%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Pietro Agnoletto
Australian Greens |
2. Rod Smith
One Nation |
3. Scott Buchholtz
Liberal Party |
4. Allistair Smith
Australian Labor Party |
5. Barry Austin
Family First |
6. Mark Stone
Liberal Democratic Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Wright was created by the 2010 Queensland redistribution, from the southern, rural parts of Blair and Forde and the inland parts of Fadden, McPherson and Moncrieff. It is a hybrid seat, running from the Lockyer Valley towns of Gatton and Helidon in the north, through Boonah and Beaudesert to the south of Brisbane, to Mudgeeraba in the Gold Coast hinterland. It also includes outer Brisbane suburbs such as Forestdale and Greenbank.
Like most rural or semi-rural seats, Wright combines a relatively low income level with a very low level of people born in non English speaking countries, a combination which reliably indicates conservatism. Most of the seat is strongly Liberal, and it is hard to see Labor ever being competitive in the seat on its current boundaries.
Scott Buchholz, Liberal MP for Wright since 2010, was a company managing director and worked for Senator Barnaby Joyce before his election. He became a Government Whip in 2013 and Chief Government Whip in February 2015, but was removed by Malcolm Turnbull in October. His Labor opponent in 2016 is Allistair Smith, a high school teacher.
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