Lilley – Election 2010

ALP 8.0%

Incumbent MP
Wayne Swan, since 1998, previously Member for Lilley 1993-96.

Geography
Northern Brisbane. Lilley covers most of the northern corner of the City of Brisbane, including the suburbs of Chermside, Stafford, McDowall, Wavell Heights, Nudgee, Taigum, Deagon, Sandgate, Zilllmere and Nundah. The seat also covers Brisbane Airport, which substantially increases the land area covered by Lilley, without much of a resident population.

Redistribution
Lilley lost suburbs from its southern edge, as far south as Breakfast Creek, which were transferred to Brisbane. It gained Chermside West and Stafford from Petrie and Brisbane.

History
The seat of Lilley was first created at the 1913 election. The seat has a history of moving between Labor and conservative parties, although it has shifted gradually towards the ALP, only falling to the Liberals at their peak.

The seat was first won in 1913 by Liberal candidate Jacob Stumm. He retired at the 1917 election.

The seat was then won by Nationalist candidate George Mackay. Mackay held the seat for 17 years. After the new United Australia Party won the 1931 election, Mackay was elected Speaker, and served in that role until his retirement at the 1934 election.

Lilley was then won by the UAP’s Donald Charles Cameron, who had previously held Brisbane from 1919 until his defeat in 1931. He only held Lilley for one term before retiring.

In 1937, the UAP’s William Jolly was elected to Lilley. Jolly had been the first Lord Mayor of the Greater Brisbane City Council. Jolly held the seat for two terms, but lost the seat in 1943 to the ALP’s James Hadley.

Hadley was the first Labor member for Lilley, and held it until his defeat in 1949. The seat was then held by Liberal MP Bruce Wight.

Wight held the seat until 1961, when he was defeated by the ALP’s Donald James Cameron. He only held the seat for one term, losing to Kevin Cairns from the Liberal Party in 1963. Cairns served as a junior minister under William McMahon from 1971 to his defeat at the 1972 election, losing to the ALP’s Frank Doyle. Cairns won the seat back at the next election in 1974 and held it until his defeat in 1980.

The ALP’s Elaine Darling won Lilley in 1980. She managed to win re-election in 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990, and was the first Labor MP to hold Lilley for more than two terms.

Darling retired in 1993, and was succeeded by Wayne Swan, the Secretary of the Queensland ALP. Swan lost the seat in 1996 to the Liberal Party’s Elizabeth Grace, but won it back in 1998. He joined the Opposition shadow ministry in 1998 and rose to the top of the party, becoming Treasurer after the election of the Rudd government in 2007.

Candidates

  • Andrew Herschell (Family First)
  • Douglas Crowhurst (Independent)
  • Wayne Swan (Labor) – Member for Swan 1993-1996 and since 1998, Treasurer since 2007, Deputy Prime Minister since June 2010.
  • Andrew Jeremijenko (Greens)
  • Rod McGarvie (Liberal National)

Political situation
Wayne Swan now holds this seat with a reasonably comfortable margin and would only be vulnerable if the Liberal party was doing extremely well.

2007 result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Wayne Swan ALP 43,058 51.57 +2.58
Scott McConnel LIB 31,944 38.26 -2.80
Simon Kean Hammerson GRN 5,654 6.77 +1.12
Karen Gray FF 1,376 1.65 -1.15
Jennifer Cluse SA 1,015 1.22 -0.28
Aubrey Clark LDP 455 0.54 +0.54

2007 two-candidate-preferred result

 

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Wayne Swan ALP 48,921 58.59 +3.19
Scott McConnel LIB 34,581 41.41 -3.19

Booth breakdown
Booths in Lilley have been divided into four areas according to key suburbs. The ALP polled over 60% in the Nudgee-Nundah area in the east of the seat and in the Brighton-Sandgate area in the north. The lowest Labor vote was in Chermside in the west of the seat.

 

 

 

Voter group GRN % ALP 2CP % Total votes % of ordinary votes
Chermside 6.09 54.18 25,977 38.41
Aspley-Zillmere 4.75 58.51 17,714 26.19
Nudgee-Nundah 6.63 63.61 14,029 20.74
Brighton-Sandgate 8.71 66.12 9,914 14.66
Other votes 7.12 58.03 16,379
Results of the 2007 federal election in Lilley.

6 COMMENTS

  1. Rumours are a backlash against Mr Swan re the axing of Mr Rudd a fellow Queenslander this is getting louder in Lilley. It probably wont produce 8.1% swing but it will shake Mr Swan a bit !

  2. from my info………it could. He has set up a telephone polling service in the seat and my info is that the results are not too encouraging with a substantial ‘other’ vote expected. Mumble is running a blog today and this is one of my OMG seats.

    The word is as you say, constiituents are absolutely filthy with him for going against a fellow Queenslander in Rudd. The margin was only 4% in 2004. He lost it in 1996. It is losable. There will be a 3-4% swing against the ALP in QLD as a start. He has spent a bit of time in the seat over the campaign but it has been kept fairly quiet.

  3. I think that Mr Swan will lose his seat due in part to the loss of Mr Rudd as PM and in part to State Labor’s very poor (from a Labor party supporter) management.

    Personally I’ll be voting on gun issues. So FF will get my primary vote and Greens will be last.

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