3:56 – You can use this map to toggle old and new boundaries for the state, or use the ECQ map here. It’s quite a large file but it’s about as small as I could make it.
3:04 – The ECQ has published spatial boundary files as a geoJSON file. Unfortunately I’ll need some more time to convert it into the format I use, and to match it to the enrolment by SA1 to determine how many voters have been moved from old to new seats before calculating the redistribution.
2:57 – At first glance it does resemble the LNP submission.
2:56 – Unfortunately it looks like they have not published geospatial files which severely limits our ability to calculate seat margins. Blame the ECQ. Hopefully they will share them soon – otherwise I’ll have to draw the boundaries from scratch which will take weeks.
2:55 – Hill and Stretton have been proposed to be abolished, and two new seats of Caboolture and Springfield are proposed to be created.
19 seats have been renamed:
- Bancroft as Deception Bay
- Bonney as Labrador
- Bundamba as Redbank
- Chatsworth as Carindale
- Coomera as Pimpama
- Cooper as Ashgrove
- Jordan as Greenbank
- Macalister as Beenleigh
- Maiwar as Indooroopilly
- McConnel as Brisbane Central
- Miller as Annerley
- Nicklin as Nambour
- Ninderry as Coolum
- Oodgeroo as Cleveland
- Scenic Rim as Beaudesert
- Theodore as Oxenford
- Toohey as Eight Mile Plains
- Traeger as Flinders
- Waterford as Marsden
Quite a few of these are reversing renamings we saw in 2016.
2:50 – The redistribution has been published! And I have 20 minutes to look at before going out with family responsibilities.
2:04 – The draft boundaries for the Queensland state redistribution are apparently due to be published some time this afternoon. I expect the maps to be published on this website.
Unfortunately this is a bit of an inconvenient time for myself – I will attempt to analyse them as quickly as possible but a full analysis may need to wait for tonight or tomorrow.
This is the first redistribution of Queensland state electorates for a decade, with the current boundaries having been used at the 2017, 2020 and 2024 elections.
My plan for this afternoon and evening is to broadly describe proposed changes, and then calculate the partisan impact of the changes as well as the volume of voters who have been moved to a new seat.
