Australian electorate
| Keppel Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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 Electoral map of Keppel 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1912–1960; 1992–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Nigel Hutton | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal National | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Great Keppel Island | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 37,052 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 3,763 km (1,452.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 22°55′S 150°43′E / 22.917°S 150.717°E / -22.917; 150.717 | ||||||||||||||
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Keppel is an electoral district in the state of Queensland, Australia.
The electoral district encompasses the central Queensland coast from the mouth of the Fitzroy River in the south to Shoalwater Bay to the north. Major communities located within this electorate include Yeppoon, Emu Park, Byfield and the Rockhampton suburbs of Parkhurst and Lakes Creek.
Members for Keppel
| First incarnation (1912–1960) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | ||
| James Larcombe | Labor | 1912–1929 | ||
| Owen Daniel | CPNP | 1929–1936 | ||
| David Daniel | Country | 1936–1944 | ||
| Walter Ingram | Labor | 1944–1952 | ||
| Viv Cooper | Labor | 1952–1957 | ||
| Queensland Labor | 1957 | |||
| Merv Thackeray | Labor | 1957–1960 | ||
| Second incarnation (1992–present) | ||||
| Member | Party | Term | ||
| Vince Lester | National | 1992–2004 | ||
| Paul Hoolihan | Labor | 2004–2012 | ||
| Bruce Young | Liberal National | 2012–2015 | ||
| Brittany Lauga | Labor | 2015–2024 | ||
| Nigel Hutton | Liberal National | 2024–present | ||
Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the district of Keppel This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Queensland state election § Keppel.| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal National | Nigel Hutton | 12,684 | 36.1 | +6.5 | |
| Labor | Brittany Lauga | 10,376 | 29.5 | −16.7 | |
| One Nation | James Ashby | 8,807 | 25.1 | +9.4 | |
| Greens | Clancy Mullbrick | 1,668 | 4.7 | +0.8 | |
| Independent | Petrina Murphy | 806 | 2.3 | +2.3 | |
| Family First | Roger McWhinney | 804 | 2.3 | +2.3 | |
| Total formal votes | 35,145 | 96.4 | |||
| Informal votes | 1,296 | 3.6 | |||
| Turnout | 36,441 | ||||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal National | Nigel Hutton | 21,254 | 60.5 | +16.1 | |
| Labor | Brittany Lauga | 13,891 | 39.5 | −16.1 | |
| Liberal National gain from Labor | Swing | +16.1 | |||
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References
- "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.
- "Keppel - QLD Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 27 October 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
External links
- Green, Antony (9 June 2023). "Electorate Profile". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.