Australian electorate
| Southport Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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 Electoral map of Southport 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Rob Molhoek | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal National | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Southport | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 34,899 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 33 km (12.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Inner-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°57′S 153°23′E / 27.950°S 153.383°E / -27.950; 153.383 | ||||||||||||||
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Southport is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
The district is based in the northern part of the Gold Coast. It is named for the suburb of Southport, and also includes the suburbs of Arundel, Labrador, Molendinar and Parkwood. It was first created for the 1977 election.
An earlier district based in the same region was also called Southport. It existed from 1950 to 1960.
Members for Southport
| First incarnation (1950–1960) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Eric Gaven | Country | 1950–1960 | |
| Second incarnation (1977–present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Peter White | Liberal | 1977–1980 | |
| Doug Jennings | National | 1980–1987 | |
| Mick Veivers | National | 1987–2001 | |
| Peter Lawlor | Labor | 2001–2012 | |
| Rob Molhoek | Liberal National | 2012–present | |
Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the district of Southport This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Queensland state election § Southport.| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal National | Rob Molhoek | 15,183 | 51.4 | +5.8 | |
| Labor | Letitia Del Fabbro | 8,128 | 27.5 | −7.0 | |
| One Nation | David Vaughan | 2,581 | 8.8 | +2.9 | |
| Greens | Mitch McCausland | 2,574 | 8.7 | −0.3 | |
| Family First | Ruth Fea | 1,069 | 3.6 | +3.6 | |
| Total formal votes | 29,535 | 94.8 | |||
| Informal votes | 1,605 | 5.2 | |||
| Turnout | 31,140 | ||||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal National | Rob Molhoek | 18,060 | 61.1 | +5.7 | |
| Labor | Letitia Del Fabbro | 11,475 | 38.9 | −5.7 | |
| Liberal National hold | Swing | +5.7 | |||
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.
- "Southport - QLD Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. 27 October 2024. Retrieved 14 December 2024.