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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Maranoa, Queensland
Western Queensland: Charleville, Dalby, Kingaroy, Warwick
Sitting member: Hon Bruce Scott (Nationals), elected 1990. Retiring 2016
Enrolment at close of rolls: 102,861
2013 Nationals majority over Labor: 22.3%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. David Kerrigan
Australian Labor Party |
2. Myfanwy Schenk
Family First |
3. Katherine Hompes
Australian Greens |
4. Sherrilyn Church
Rise Up Australia |
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5. Luke Arbuckle
CountryMinded |
6. Rick Gurnett
Katter's Australian Party |
7. David Littleproud
The Nationals |
8. Lynette Keehn
One Nation |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Maranoa has existed since Federation, and has always included the south-western corner of Queensland, dominated by the pastoral industry, and for many years by the Australian Workers Union. But successive redistributions have drawn the seat eastwards, and it now extends as far as Warwick and Crows Nest, less than 100km from Brisbane. Most of Maranoa's votes are now cast in the farming areas east of the Balonne. Maranoa has the third-highest proportion of its workforce engaged in agriculture of any electorate, and therefore also has a low level of median family income and a very low proportion of people born in non English speaking countries. It has a 4.2% Indigenous population.
Once a safe Labor seat, Maranoa has been held continuously by the Country Party and its successor the Nationals since 1943. There is still some Labor vote in the western towns but the Nationals have overwhelming support in the eastern half of the seat.
Bruce Scott, Nationals MP for Maranoa since 1990, a graingrower before entering politics, was a minister in the first Howard Government, but was dropped when the Nationals' numbers fell at the 2001 election. He remained an influential figure as Queensland Nationals President, but will retire at this election. His successor will be David Littleproud, Suncorp’s Regional Agribusiness Manager for South West Queensland, based in Warwick. The Labor candidate is David Kerrigan, a rural health worker in Barcaldine.
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