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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Moncrieff, Queensland
Gold Coast: Broadbeach, Nerang, Southport, Surfers Paradise
Sitting member: Hon Steve Ciobo (Liberal), elected 2001
Enrolment at close of rolls: 102,971
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 18.0%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Hon Steve Ciobo
Liberal Party |
2. Hayden Sheppard
Australian Labor Party |
3. Julie Rose
Family First |
4. Roger Brisbane
Australian Greens |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Moncrieff was created in 1984, occupying the northern half of the Gold Coast tourism and retirement strip, centering on Surfers Paradise and Southport. Subsequent redistributions have moved the seat further to the south, without much changing its demographic or political character. It has a high level of people over 65, and the highest level of people employed in tourism of any seat. This means it is definitely not a mortgage belt seat. It has a very low proportion of families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased, and 35% of its residents are flat-dwellers. Like the rest of the Gold Coast, Moncrieff is fairly safe for the federal Liberal Party, although Labor has won state seats on the Gold Coast in recent years.
Moncrieff's first member, Kathy Sullivan, was elected to the Senate in 1974 and shifted to the House in 1984. She was a parliamentary secretary in the Howard Government, and by her retirement in 2001 she was the longest-serving female member in the history of the Parliament, although she has since lost that title to Bronwyn Bishop.
Steven Ciobo, Liberal MP for Moncrieff since 2001, was a consultant and ministerial adviser before he was elected at age 26. He was on the opposition frontbench from 2007 and was a parliamentary secretary from 2013. He is now Minister for Trade and Investment. The Labor candidate is Hayden Sheppard, a student at Queensland University of Technology..
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