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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Maranoa, Queensland
Named for: Maranoa River (Indigenous word of unknown meaning). The name was recorded by Sir Thomas Mitchell in 1846.
Western Queensland: Goondiwindi, Kingaroy, Longreach, St George, Warwick
Enrolment at 2019 election: 105,043
Enrolment at 2022 election: 109,005 (+03.9)
1999 republic referendum: No 77.2
2018 same-sex marriage survey: No 56.1
2023 Voice referendum: No 84.6
2007 Nationals majority over Labor: 14.4%
2010 Nationals majority over Labor: 22.9%
2013 Nationals majority over Labor: 22.3%
2016 Nationals majority over One Nation: 15.9%
2019 Nationals majority over Labor: 25.4%
2022 Nationals majority over Labor: 22.1%
Status: Very safe Nationals
Nationals two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Division of Maranoa
Maranoa has existed since Federation, and has always included the south-western borderlands 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 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
non English speaking households. It also has a substantial Indigenous population, despite which it cast the highest No vote in Australia
in the 2023 Voice referendum.
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, who held the seat from 1990 to 2016, was a minister in the first Howard Government.
David Littleproud, Nationals MP for Maranoa since 2016, was Suncorp's Regional Agribusiness Manager for South West Queensland,
based in Warwick, before his election. His father Brian Littleproud was a Queensland state minister. Regarded as the Nationals' coming man when he was elected, he gained rapid promotion and was a minister from 2017. In February 2020 he was elected Deputy Leader of the Nationals. During the Nationals'
turmoil in June 2021 there was speculation that he would run for the leadership, but he was content to remain Deputy
under
Barnaby Joyce and retain his position as Minister for Agriculture,
Drought and Emergency Management. After the defeat of the Coalition government in 2022, he was elected Nationals Leader, and is now
Shadow Minister for Agriculture.
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