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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Wright, Queensland
Named for: Judith Wright (1915-2000), poet
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
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
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.
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