Nudgee – Queensland 2012

ALP 14.3%

Incumbent MP
Neil Roberts, since 1995.

Geography
Northern parts of the City of Brisbane. Nudgee covers the Brisbane suburbs of Geebung, Boondall, Zillmere, Northgate, Banyo and Nudgee, and parts of Nundah, Wavell Heights and Chermside.

History
The seat of Nudgee has existed since 1960, and has always been held by the Labor Party.

Jack Melloy first won the seat in 1960. He served as deputy leader of the ALP from 1974 to 1976, and retired in 1977.

Melloy was succeeded by Ken Vaughan in 1977. He served as a minister in the Goss Labor government from 1989 to 1992, and retired from Nudgee in 1995.

Neil Roberts won Nudgee in 1995. He was re-elected in 1998, 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2009, and has served as Minister for Emergency Services, Corrective Services, and Police since 2009.

Candidates
Sitting Labor MP Neil Roberts is not running for re-election. The ALP is running Leanne Linard. The LNP is running Jason Woodforth. The Greens are running Anthony Pink.

Political situation
Nudgee would usually be considered safe for the Labor Party but could be an outside chance for the LNP in this election if there is a landslide.

2009 result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Neil Roberts ALP 16,034 56.0 -5.4
Michael Palmer LNP 8,864 30.9 +2.8
Noel Clothier GRN 2,517 8.8 -1.4
Centaine Francis FF 700 2.4 +2.4
Douglas Crowhurst IND 534 1.9 +1.9

2009 two-candidate-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Neil Roberts ALP 17,318 64.3 -3.9
Michael Palmer LNP 9,633 35.7 +3.9

Booth breakdown
Booths in Nudgee have been divided into four areas: Zillmere in the northwest, Wavell in the southwest, Nundah in the southeast, Nudgee in the northeast.

The ALP won a majority in all four areas, varying from 52% in Wavell to 60% in Nudgee.

Polling booths in Nudgee at the 2009 state election. Nudgee in orange, Nundah in green, Wavell in yellow, Zillmere in blue.

 

Voter group ALP % LNP % GRN % Total votes % of votes
Zillmere 57.8 30.6 7.6 7,659 26.7
Wavell 52.6 34.1 9.3 5,222 18.2
Nundah 53.2 31.6 10.6 5,117 17.9
Nudgee 60.3 27.3 7.1 4,425 15.4
Other votes 55.8 30.8 9.5 6,226 21.7
Labor primary votes in Nudgee at the 2009 state election.
Liberal National primary votes in Nudgee at the 2009 state election.

11 COMMENTS

  3. haha jason, I was going to correct them on your behalf, glad you did it though.

    See you around the Next Member for Nudgee.

  4. is that Phil the Patsy who is protecting the invisible man from coomera?

    Typical arrogance of LnP to automatically believe that they have it sewn up. You fail to consider the silent majority who cannot stand can’t do. Just because people want a change doesn’t mean that it will be your fractured pack of misfit tories who have no desire to include the nationals in the equation.

    Now is the perfect storm for the minor parties/independents.

    I would like to see as many katter people, greens, daylight savings, qld party people contest this seat as well as every seat so that people have a real choice. I believe your just vote 1 strategy will be the LnP death knell.

  5. haha wow, Terrence = crazy fool. If you seriously think Katter’s bunch of wanna be MP’s have a shot at forming government you’re insane!!!

    More over, if the LNP is so bad, why is it Katter wants so many of our candidates and MP’s to join his party? Look at the federal government, Independents have ruined this nation, people don’t take them seriously anymore. The LNP take this state seriously, sorry if you can’t see that.

  6. Dear Phil, you are sadly misguided my friend. I don’t think katter wants any LnP personalities. They keep flocking from a fractured party. Don’t give me the crazy fool aspect you PATSY. Personal jibes are only appropriate against bludgers like your rmember for Coomera who is a NO BODY and grub who sucks the public purse to line his very own. Actually Phil, do you know that the name Crandon is actually latin for Slipper???

    Your rubbish arrogrance bores me to tears. By the way does your well oiled machine have an alternate leader when Can’t do loses Ashgrove?

  7. Ahh ask for a membership list from Katter’a Australian Party, then ask how many are former LNP members and former ALP members. In fact, ask how many of the current sitting MP’s are former LNP Members elected as LNP Members and defected. That’s right 100% of the state MP’s are former LNP Members who Katter begged to come over, yet the LNP is such a bad party.

    Least our Leader is running as himself, people think they’re voting for Katter, ahhh McLindon is the State Leader, he will be Premier under a “Katter government”. Why don’t you tell the people exactly who they’ll be voting for. Oh no that’s right, nobody knows who McLindon is, and if they did they certainly wouldn’t vote for him.

  8. Phil, you once more have no idea…..

    Why do you carry on with such absolute rubbish? Your first paragraph seems to be written whilst you speak. Yes Phil it makes no sense. You fail to include that Aiden Mclindon defected. then Mr Knuth defected. You also fail to state that Mr Springborg sought pre selection under the Ausparty banner. I know this because unlike you I read all sources of information and not rubbish put in front of me.

    Phil you are brainwashed. How do you know that McLindon is such a bad egg. Don’t forget that Mr McLindon left the LnP because he had the courage of conviction and not some false promise of being guaranteed a Minister’s spot if he towed the fractured party line for 10 years. What the LnP needs is 87 courageous crusaders not 86 followers. Can Do seems to be the only one standing up.

    I see now 30 odd Katter Candidates with bollocks the size of coconuts who are willing to stand up and say ‘ It is not personal, I know that the LnP don’t hate me for who I am, they hate me because I am actually standing up for Mr and Mrs Jones, Smith, Ahmed, Subrumanian as well as every other Australian who have had a gutful of the rubbish of selling state assets, giving in to the mining companies – CSG etc. They hate that Katter is actually saying that no longer are we a manufacturing nation, just a hole in the ground rich for the picking by other nations.

    I believe that the KAP are the voice for the SILENT MAJORITY. I am not a member but it seems that almost every person that I speak to is looking at voting for a Katter party candidate across the board in this State. Not just Coomera, Albert, Hinchinbrook, Cairns, Ferny Grove, Everton, Capalaba, Toowoomba South, Nudgee, Mt Isa, etc. You tories need to know that this Katter thing and the mood for minority parties is not a flash in the pan. People are sick of the two major parties. The time for the voice of the community is now.

  11. So who is this independent that’s running? I can’t find ANY info on him. Is he just rorting the system to get money or what? He keeps contesting elections with no information on policy or anything!

    I’m going to put him last in hope it means he gets less public money unless I see something, anything from him!

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