Division of Bowman

Division of Bowman
Bowman
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Bowman 2010.png
Division of Bowman (green) within Queensland
Created: 1949
MP: Andrew Laming
Party: Liberal National
Namesake: David Bowman
Area: 537 km² (207 sq mi)
Demographic: Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Bowman is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created in 1949 and is named for David Bowman, an early leader of the Australian Labor Party, in Queensland. The seat is located in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, and currently includes the suburbs of Capalaba, Cleveland, Redland Bay, Birkdale, Thorneside, Alexandra Hills, Thornlands, Mount Cotton, Cornubia, Ormiston, Wellington Point and Victoria Point. The division also incorporates various islands of Moreton Bay including Coochiemudlo the inhabited southern Bay Islands (Russell, Karragarra, Macleay and Lamb) as well as the big tourist destination of North Stradbroke.

It is generally a residential electorate with some crops, poultry, various light industries and tourism.

Bowman has traditionally been a highly marginal seat, regularly changing hands between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party. Notably, the electorate has been won by the party with the largest national two party preferred vote at every election from 1954 to 2001 (except 1990). However, in the 2004 Federal Election, an energetic campaign by Dr Andrew Laming, and an electoral redistribution (due to the creation of the new Division of Bonner), saw Bowman returned to the Liberal Party by a significant margin (59.12% two party preferred) and the division was then considered by pollsters such as Antony Green to be a fairly safe Liberal seat.

In the 2007 Federal Election the electorate experienced a strong swing of 8.86% towards the Australian Labor Party. Incumbent Liberal MP Andrew Laming held the seat by 0.04%, or 64 votes. Following the 2007 election, it was second only to McEwen as the most marginal seat in the country, although the 2009 electoral redistribution in Queensland saw the margin notionally reduced even further to effectively 0.005%, making Bowman the most marginal seat in the country.[1]

Members

Member Party Term
  Malcolm McColm Liberal 1949–1961
  Jack Comber Labor 1961–1963
  Wylie Gibbs Liberal 1963–1969
  Leonard Keogh Labor 1969–1975
  David Jull Liberal 1975–1983
  Leonard Keogh Labor 1983–1987
  Con Sciacca Labor 1987–1996
  Andrea West Liberal 1996–1998
  Con Sciacca Labor 1998–2004
  Andrew Laming Liberal 2004–2010
  Liberal National 2010–present

Election results

Australian federal election, 2010: Bowman
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Andrew Laming 45,585 55.63 +9.51
Labor Jenny Peters 24,719 30.17 -13.97
Greens David Keogh 8,174 9.97 +4.51
Family First Karina Windolf 1,834 2.24 -0.70
One Nation Dave Chidgey 865 1.06 +0.53
Democratic Labor John Kent 768 0.94 +0.94
Total formal votes 81,945 94.61 -2.01
Informal votes 4,672 5.39 +2.01
Turnout 86,617 94.26 -0.98
Two-candidate preferred result
Liberal National Andrew Laming 49,490 60.39 +10.39
Labor Jenny Peters 32,455 39.61 -10.39
Liberal National hold Swing +10.39

References

  1. ^ Hurst, Brian: Time is running out in ALP in Bowman, Bayside Bulletin, 1 February 2010.

Coordinates: 27°34′48″S 153°14′31″E / 27.580°S 153.242°E / -27.580; 153.242


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