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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Ryan, Queensland
Western Brisbane: Bardon, Indooroopilly, Keppera, Moggill
Sitting member: Hon Jane Prentice (Liberal), elected 2010
Enrolment at close of rolls: 105,044
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 8.5%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. John Quinn
Democratic Labour Party |
2. David Todd
Family First |
3. Stephen Hegedus
Australian Labor Party |
4. Hon Jane Prentice
Liberal Party |
5. Sandra Bayley
Australian Greens |
6. Sly Gryphon
Liberal Democratic Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Ryan was created in 1949, covering the inner western suburbs of Brisbane, the wealthiest part of the city. Subsequent redistributions have extended
the seat to the west and south, without substantially changing its character. It has among the highest levels of median family income and of people
in professional occupations of any electorate. Unlike most other wealthy inner-city, electorates, however, it also has high levels of families with
dependent children and of dwellings being purchased: it is thus a high-income mortgage belt seat, with many people paying mortgages on large family
homes, a fact which makes them very sensitive to interest rates and similar economic issues.
Labor has only won Ryan once, at a 2001 by-election at the height of the Howard Government's unpopularity. Apart from that the seat has been safely
Liberal, although none of its members have risen to any great heights. In 2010 Michael Johnson was dropped as the sitting member after accusations of
illegal fundraising.
Jane Prentice, Liberal MP for Ryan since 2010, was managing director of Conventions Queensland and a member of the Brisbane City Council before her
election. She has been Assistant Minister for Disability Services since February 2016. Her Labor opponent in 2016 is Stephen Hegedus, a barrister.
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