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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Moreton, Queensland
Named for: Moreton Bay (named by James Cook after James Douglas, 14th
Earl of Morton (1702-68), the President of the Royal Society. (The difference in spelling arises from an error in the published version of Cook's journal. The title Earl of Morton derives from Morton Castle in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.)
Southside Brisbane: Graceville, Runcorn, Salisbury, Sunnybank, Yeronga
Enrolment at 2019 election: 102,758
Enrolment at 2022 election: 107,115 (+04.3)
1999 republic referendum: No 52.1
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 60.9
2023 Voice referendum: No 50.7
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Sitting member: Graham Perrett (Labor): Elected 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022
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2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 4.7%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 1.1%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 1.6%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 3.8%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 1.9%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 9.1%
Status: Fairly safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Division of Moreton
Moreton has existed since Federation, although its boundaries have varied greatly over that time - it was
orginally based on Ipswich. Since 1949 it has been a southern Brisbane suburban seat, initially safe for the
Liberal Party but growing more marginal as these areas declined in socio-economic terms and grew more
multicultural. Although it has a relatively high level of median family income, a significant sign of social change
is that it has Queensland's highest proportion of non English speaking households, mainly due to an influx of Chinese
immigrants. This suggests that the seat is becoming an inner city multicultural seat rather than a suburban mortgage belt
seat.
Members for Moreton have included long-serving conservative ministers
Sir Josiah Francis and
Sir James Killen.
Garrie Gibson, the first Labor member for Moreton since 1906, was defeated in the Howard landslide of 1996. His successor,
Gary Hardgrave, was a junior minister in the Howard Government, but was defeated in the Rudd sweep of Queensland seats in 2007.
Graham Perrett, Labor MP for Moreton since 2007, was a teacher and an organiser with the Queensland Independent EducationUnion before his election. He was narrowly re-elected in 2010 and 2013.
Perrett gained a modest swing towards him in 2016, but this was reversed in 2019. In 2022 he gained a solid swing and is now fairly
secure. He was on the Opposition front bench from 2014 but did not gain a place in the Albanese ministry.
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