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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Flynn, Queensland
Central Queensland coast: Emerald, Gayndah, Gladstone, Mount Morgan
Sitting member: Ken O'Dowd (Nationals), elected 2010
Enrolment at close of rolls: 100,660
2013 Nationals majority over Labor: 6.5%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Richard Love
Katter's Australian Party |
2. Craig Tomsett
Australian Greens |
3. Nathan Fletcher
Independent |
4. Zac Beers
Australian Labor Party |
5. Phil Baker
One Nation |
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6. Duncan Scott
Independent |
7. Jordan Puku
Independent |
8. Ken O'Dowd
The Nationals |
9. Heather Barnett
Family First |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Flynn was created by the 2006 redistribution, from parts of the old seats of Capricornia, Hinkler, Maranoa and Wide Bay. Its largest centre is
the Labor stronghold of Gladtone, and it runs inland through National-voting rural towns such as Monto and Eidsvold to the mining towns of
Emerald and Blackwater. Flynn has the usual rural mix of low median family incomes, a low level of people in professional occupations and a
low proportion of people born in non English speaking countries. Nearly a fifth of its workforce is employed in agriculture. Even in 2013, Labor
won every booth in the Gladstone- Mount Morgan area by a wide margin, but outside Gladstone Labor's only support is in Blackwater and the
Indigenous shire of Woorabinda. The rural parts of the seat vote overwhelming for the Nationals.
Labor's win in Flynn in 2007 was one of the upsets of the election, and the recovery of the seat by the Nationals in 2010 was no surprise. The
Nationals increased their majority in 2013.
Ken O'Dowd, Nationals MP for Flynn since 2010, was a timber and hardware merchant before his election. He is one of the Parliament's more
inconspicuous backbenchers. Since he was already 60 when he was elected, he is unlikely to change that status. The Labor candidate, in a
sharp contrast, is a 25-year-old organiser with the Australian Workers Union, Zac Beers. It would now take a big swing to Labor in Queensland
for the Nationals to lose Flynn, and O'Dowd now has the advantage of three years as the incumbent.
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