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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Blair, Queensland
West of Brisbane: Bundamba, Ipswich, Kilkoy, Redbank Plains
Sitting member: Hon Shayne Neumann (Labor), elected 2007
Enrolment at close of rolls: 98,427
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 5.3%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Sandy Turner
Independent |
2. Jonathan Emms
Independent |
3. Hon Shayne Neumann
Australian Labor Party |
4. Dr Patricia Petersen
Independent |
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5. Pat Walsh
Australian Greens |
6. Troy Aggett
One Nation |
7. Teresa Harding
Liberal Party |
8. Geoff Darr
Family First |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Blair was created in 1998, from parts of the old seats of Oxley and Longman. It was then a largely rural seat with parts of western Ipswich. Like many rural or semi-rural seats, it combined a relatively low income level with a very low level of people born in non English speaking countries, a combination which usually indicates conservatism. Blair attracted national attention at the 1998 election because Pauline Hanson, the extreme right-wing member for Oxley, elected as a disendorsed Liberal in 1996, stood in Blair for her new One Nation party. She topped the poll on primaries, but was defeated on preferences by the Liberal Cameron Thompson. Successive redistributions, put all of Ipswich into Blair, reducing its rural component and making it weaker for the Liberals. Labor finally won the seat in 2007, and have held it since.
Shayne Neumann, Labor MP for Blair since 2007, was an Ipswich lawyer before entering politics. He was a parliamentary secretary in the last year of the Rudd-Gillard Government, and is now Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Shadow Minister for Ageing. Having survived the heavy swing against Labor in Queensland in 2010, and won a swing towards him in 2013, he is now fairly secure in this seat. In 2013 Labor won every booth in Ipswich, leaving the Liberals with only the rural towns such as Kilkoy to the north. The Liberal candidate in 2016 is Teresa Harding, whose occupation is not stated.
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