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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Bowman, Queensland
Southside Brisbane: Capalaba, Cleveland, Redland Bay, Victoria Point
Sitting member: Dr Andrew Laming (Liberal), elected 2004
Enrolment at close of rolls: 103,551
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 8.9%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Brad Scott
Australian Greens |
2. Kim Richards
Australian Labor Party |
3. Dr Andrew Laming
Liberal Party |
4. Tony Duncan
Australian Liberty Alliance |
5. Brett Saunders
Family First |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Bowman was created in 1949 and has always occupied territory in Brisbane's south-eastern beachside suburbs. It has always been a marginal seat
(every member who has held the seat has been defeated), but recent redistributions have pushed it further to the south-east, making it a better
seat for the Liberals. It has a high level of families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased, the indicators of a mortgage
belt seat. Strikingly, it has the lowest proportion of people born in non English speaking countries of any urban seat in Australia.
Labor's strength is in Capalaba and Alexandra Hills, and also in the Indigenous communities on North Stradbroke Island, particularly Dunwich. But
these are now outvoted by strong Liberal areas such as Cleveland, Redland Bay and Victoria Point.
Con Sciacca served two stints as Labor member for Bowman and was a minister in the Keating Government. The 2004 redistribution created a new seat
of Bonner, including most of Bowman's better Labor areas, and Sciacca (unsuccessfully) contested Bonner in 2004. Bowman passed to the Liberals.
Dr Andrew Laming, Liberal MP for Bowman since 2004, was an ophthalmologist and World Bank health consultant with an impressive CV before his
election. He very narrowly held the seat in 2007, but has not been troubled since. He has not lived up to his early promise and is still on the
backbench. His Labor opponent in 2016 will be Kim Richards, who chief operating officer of Architectus, a landscape architecture firm.
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