Safe Labor 10.3%
Judy Spence (ALP) since 1989. Minister for Police and Corrective Services.
An electorate in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane divided in the middle by the South-east Freeway, Toohey Forest Park and the Nathan campus of Griffith University. North of the freeway it includes the suburbs of Mount Gravatt and Mount Gravatt East, and to the south, Robertson, Sunnybank and parts of Eight Mile Plains.
One of a line of south-east Brisbane seats held by the National Party between 1983 and 1989, Mount Gravatt was gained for Labor in 1989 by current MP Judy Spence. She was nearly defeated in 1995, Mount Gravatt being the only seat Labor retained on the northern side of the Pacific Highway between Greenslopes and Beenleigh as the Goss government was hammered over the proposed 'Koala tollway' issue. Spence increased her majority substantially in both 1998 and 2001. Despite a swing to the Liberal Party in 2004, she still holds the seat with a comfortable margin.
2-Party Booth Result
Labor majorities were recorded in all 14 booths used in 2004. Ignoring the 81.9% Labor vote recorded at Brisbane City Hall, Labor's vote in the remaining booths ranged from 55.8% at Upper Mount Gravatt Primary School to 69.0% at Runcorn State High.
|J. F. Barnes|
|Matthew Darragh||Family First|
|Daniel Crute||The Greens|
|Judy Spence*||Australian Labor Party|
|Nick Monsour||Liberal Party|
|2-Candidate Preferred Result|
Information compiled by ABC Election Analyst Antony Green.
Last Update: 7 September 2006