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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Electoral District Of Algester
The electoral district of Algester is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in south-west Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Algester, Parkinson, Hillcrest, Boronia Heights, Forestdale, Larapinta, Heathwood, Forest Lake, Doolandella and Pallara, as well as the Greenbank Military Range. It borders the electoral districts of Sunnybank, Stretton, Logan, Lockyer, Bundamba and Inala.

The Algester electoral district was created at the 1999 redistribution from the former electoral district of Archerfield, and was contested for the first time at the 2001 election. It had been a safe seat for the Labor Party since its inception, as had Archerfield, but it was won by Anthony Shorten of the Liberal National Party at the 2012 election. Leeanne Enoch won the seat back for Labor at the 2015 election. Enoch is the first Indigenous Australian woman elected to the Queensland parliament.

Members for Algester

Member Party Term
  Karen Struthers Labor 2001–2012
Anthony Shorten Liberal National 2012–2015
  Leeanne Enoch Labor 2015–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Algester
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Algester.[edit]
2020 Queensland state election: Algester
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Leeanne Enoch 17,452 58.92 +7.00
Liberal National Nerissa Aitken 7,505 25.34 +3.65
Greens Josie Mira 2,514 8.49 +0.29
One Nation Wayne Stacey 2,147 7.25 −10.95
Total formal votes 29,618 96.29 +1.53
Informal votes 1,142 3.71 −1.53
Turnout 30,760 87.62 +0.47
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Leeanne Enoch 20,073 67.77 +3.35
Liberal National Nerissa Aitken 9,545 32.23 −3.35
Labor hold Swing +3.35
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