Redcliffe – Queensland 2024

ALP 6.1%

Incumbent MP
Yvette D’Ath, since 2014. Previously Federal Member for Petrie 2007-2013.

• Geography
• History
• Candidates
• Assessment
• 2020 results
• Booth breakdown
• Results maps

Geography
South-East Queensland. Redcliffe covers most of the Redcliffe peninsula in Moreton Bay local council area, specifically the suburbs of Kippa-ring, Redcliffe, Woody Point, Clontarf, Margate and Scarborough, as well as Moreton Island.

History
The seat of Redcliffe has existed since the 1960 election. It was dominated by conservative parties until 1989, and has been dominated by the ALP ever since.

The seat was first won in 1960 by Jim Houghton. He was first elected as an independent and after a brief stint as a Liberal he joined the Country Party in 1963. He held the seat until his retirement in 1979.

The seat was won at the 1979 by-election by Liberal candidate Terry White. White was appointed to the ministry in 1980. He became the leader of a group of Liberal MPs critical of Joh Bjelke-Petersen and their own party’s closeness to the Nationals. In 1983 he led a Liberal rebellion which resulted in his election as Liberal leader and the dissolution of the coalition. In the ensuing election a majority of Liberals lost their seats and the Nationals won a majority in their own right.

White stepped down as Liberal leader following the disastrous 1983 election and held Redcliffe until his retirement in 1989.

Ray Hollis won Redcliffe for the ALP in 1989. He became Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in 1998 and retired in 2005. This triggered the 2005 Redcliffe by-election. At the ensuing by-election the ALP lost the seat to Liberal candidate Terry Rogers, who won with an 8.4% swing.

Rogers only held the seat for one year, and lost at the 2006 election to the ALP’s Lillian van Litsenburg. She retained the seat at the 2009 state election.

In 2012, van Litsenburg lost to the LNP’s Scott Driscoll.  Driscoll had been president of the United Retail Federation, and his political career quickly came undone due to allegations he misled the Parliament over his business interests. He was suspended from the LNP in March, and resigned in November 2013 under the threat of expulsion.

The 2014 Redcliffe by-election was won by Labor candidate Yvette D’Ath, with a 17% swing back to Labor. D’Ath had previously held the federal seat covering Redcliffe, Petrie, from 2007 until her defeat at the 2013 federal election. D’Ath has been re-elected at three general elections, and has served as a cabinet minister since 2015.

Candidates
Sitting Labor MP Yvette D’Ath is not running for re-election.

• Simon Salloum (One Nation)
• Kassandra Hall (Labor)
• Gerard Saunders (Independent)
• Will Simon (Greens)
• Kerri-Anne Dooley (Liberal National)

Assessment
Redcliffe is a reasonably safe Labor seat and would likely only be in play if the LNP gained a big swing.

2020 result

2020 two-party-preferred result

Booth breakdown

Booths in Redcliffe have been divided into three areas: north-east, north-west and south.

Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 52.1% in the north-east to 58.4% in the north-west.

Election results in Redcliffe at the 2020 Queensland state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor and the Liberal National Party.

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