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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Longman, Queensland
North of Brisbane: Bribie Island, Burpengary, Caboolture, Kallangur
Sitting member: Hon Wyatt Roy (Liberal), elected 2010
Enrolment at close of rolls: 105,120
2013 Liberal majority over Labor 6.9%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Frances McDonald
Drug Law Reform |
2. Susan Lamb
Australian Labor Party |
3. Michelle Pedersen
One Nation |
4. Ian Bell
Australian Greens |
5. Hon Wyatt Roy
Liberal Party |
6. Caleb Wells
Independent |
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7. Brad Kennedy
Katter's Australian Party |
8. Stephen Beck
The Arts Party |
9. Greg Riddell
Independent |
10. Rob Law
Independent |
11. Will Smith
Family First |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Longman was created in 1996, and was originally a semi-rural seat arching around to the north and west of Brisbane. Successive redistributions
have cut it back to the suburbanising corridor between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, centered on Caboolture. Longman has among the lowest
median family income levels, the lowest proportion of people born in non English speaking countries, and the lowest proportion of people in
professional occupations, in the country. Although an outer suburban seat, it is not a mortgage belt sat, having a fairly low level of families
with dependent children and dwellings being purchased. Labor's strength is centred in Caboolture and Kallangur, but the Liberals dominate
Burpengary and the outlying parts of the seat.
Longman was won in 1996 by Malcolm Brough, who was a parliamentary secretary from 2001 and in Cabinet in the last year of the Howard Government.
In 2007 he was defeated in the Rudd sweep of the Queensland seats. His Labor successor Jon Sullivan was in turn defeated in 2010, and the Liberals
have retained the seat since.
Wyatt Roy, Liberal MP for Longman since 2010, had no career before his election, apart from being president of the Sunshine Coast Young Liberal
National Party, since he was 20 years old - the youngest person ever elected to the Australian Parliament. Far from being a handicap, his youth
gave his candidacy a curiosity value that seems to have helped him at the polls. In 2013 he substantially increased his majority. In 2015 Malcolm
Turnbull made him Assistant Minister for Innovation. His Labor opponent in 2016 will be Susan Lamb, who works for the union United Voice and
campaigns on early childhood education issues.
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