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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Wright, Queensland

Named for: Judith Wright (1915-2000), poet


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South and west of Brisbane: Beaudesert, Boonah, Gatton, Jimboomba, Tallai

Enrolment at 2019 election: 112,110
Enrolment at 2022 election: 123,792 (+10.5)
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 56.8
2023 Voice referendum: No 77.3


Sitting member: Hon Scott Buchholz (Liberal): Elected 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022


2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 10.2%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.8%
2016 Liberal majority over Labor: 9.7%
2019 Liberal majority over Labor: 14.6%
2019 Liberal majority over Labor: 10.9%


Status: Fairly safe Liberal
Liberal two-party vote 2010-22


  • 2022 results
  • Statistics and history

  • Announced candidates:

    Hon Scott Buchholz
    Liberal Party


    Division of Wright

    Wright was created by the 2010 Queensland redistribution, from the southern, rural parts of Blair and Forde and the inland parts of Fadden, McPherson and Moncrieff. It is a hybrid seat, running from the Lockyer Valley towns of Gatton and Helidon in the north, through Boonah and Beaudesert to the south of Brisbane, to Mudgeeraba in the Gold Coast hinterland. It also includes outer Brisbane suburbs such as Forestdale and Greenbank.

    Like most rural or semi-rural seats, Wright combines a fairly low income level with a very low level of people born in non English speaking countries, a low level of graduates and a low level of people in professional or managerial occupations. This is a combination which reliably indicates conservatism. Most of the seat is strongly Liberal, and it is hard to see Labor ever being competitive in the seat on its current boundaries.

    Scott Buchholz, Liberal MP for Wright since 2010, was a company managing director and worked for Senator Barnaby Joyce before his election. He became a Government Whip in 2013 and Chief Government Whip in February 2015, but was removed by Malcolm Turnbull in October. In August 2018, after he switched his party-room vote from Peter Dutton to Scott Morrison, he was appointed Assistant Minister for Road Safety and Freight Transport. He returned to the backbench after the 2022 election.

    Boundaries following most recent redistribution:



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