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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Rankin, Queensland
Named for: Senator Hon Dame Annabelle Rankin (1908-86), Senator
1946-71, first woman departmental minister
Southside Brisbane: Algester, Browns Plains, Springwood, Stretton, Woodridge
Enrolment at 2019 election: 103,570
Enrolment at 2022 election: 108,054 (+04.4)
1999 republic referendum: No 62.2
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 54.6
2023 Voice referendum: No 64.7
2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 11.7%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 5.4%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 4.8%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 11.3%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 6.4%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 9.1%
Status: Fairly safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1984-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Division of Rankin
Rankin was created in 1984, and orginally extended from the south-western suburbs of Brisbane out into
rural areas as far as Warwick. Subsequent redistributions have greatly reduced it in area and shifted
it to the east, and it now occupies a block of suburbs in the fast-growing Logan region of southern
Brisbane. It is a low-income mortgage belt seat, combining a below-average median family income level and a
low proportion of people in professional and managerial occupations with a high level of families with dependent
children and dwellings being purchased.
Rankin has always been held by Labor but has rarely been secure. It was one of only two seats in
Queensland retained by Labor in the Liberal landslide of 1996, but the 1998 redistrubution made it
nominally Liberal, so
Craig Emerson's retention of the seat that year counted as a Labor gain. The
subsequent two redistributions have further weakened Labor's position. The seat now consists of three
parts: strongly Liberal to the east of the Pacific Highway, strongly Labor in the central part area around
Woodridge, and marginal at the western end around Algester and Stretton.
Previous members for Rankin have been
David Beddall, a minister in the Keating government, and Dr
Craig Emerson, elected in 1998. Emerson was on the Labor front bench from 2001, but as a prominent
Latham supporter he resigned after the 2004 defeat. He returned to the front bench in 2006 and was
a minister through the Rudd-Gillard Government. He resigned in 2013 rather than serve under the
returned
Rudd, and retired at the 2013 election.
Dr Jim Chalmers, Labor MP for Rankin since 2013, was executive director of the Chifley Research Centre,
a Labor think-tank, before his election. He had previously been an adviser to several Labor ministers
including
Bob Carr and
Wayne Swan. He went straight on to the opposition front bench after the 2013
election and was appointed shadow Treasurer after the 2019 election. When Bill Shorten resigned as Labor leader, Chalmers was seriously considered as his successor, but eventually yielded to Anthony Albanese. He has been Treasurer since the 2022 election.
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