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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Petrie, Queensland
Named for: Andrew Petrie (1798-1872), explorer and pioneer settler in
Queensland
Northern Brisbane: Bracken Ridge, Bridgeman Downs, Deception Bay, Kippa-Ring, Redcliffe
Enrolment at 2019 election: 115,472
Enrolment at 2022 election: 124,827 (+08.2)
1999 republic referendum: No 60.9
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 61.6
2023 Voice referendum: No 66.8
2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 2.1%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 2.5%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 0.5%
2016 Liberal majority over Labor: 1.6%
2019 Liberal majority over Labor: 8.4%
2022 Liberal majority over Labor: 4.4%
Status: Marginal Liberal
Liberal two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Division of Petrie
Petrie was created in 1949, and has changed very little since, consisting of a corridor of northern suburbs running out to the
Redcliffe Peninsula. Recent redistributions have moved the seat northward, taking in Deception Bay while shedding Chermside and
Stafford to the south. It was not changed by the 2018 redistribution. Petrie has a stable, home-owning and ageing population,
with a low proportion of families with dependent children for a suburban seat.
Petrie has always been a marginal seat, which Labor won in 1961 and 1983, and from 1987 to 1996.
Teresa Gambaro won the seat for the
Liberals in 1996 and was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Howard Government. She was defeated
in the Rudd sweep of Queensland in 2007 (in 2010 she returned as MP for Brisbane). Labor's
Yvette D'Ath was a Parliamentary Secretary
in the Rudd-Gillard Government. She was re-elected in 2010 but very narrowly defeated in 2013. (She landed on her feet by winning a
state by-election in 2014, and is now a Queensland minister.)
Luke Howarth, Liberal MP for Petrie since 2013, who was re-elected with an increased majority in 2016 and in 2019, was a company director of a
family business before entering politics. He was a junior minister in the Morrison government: the fifth member for
Petrie in a row to hold ministerial office, which is remarkable for a marginal seat. He is now Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Financial Services.
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