The Electorate of Bundamba is a Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 electoral division in the state of Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

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The electorate encompasses suburbs in the east and south-east of the City of Ipswich

City of Ipswich

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 local government area. Major locations include Bundamba

Bundamba, Queensland

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, Blackstone

Blackstone, Queensland

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, Goodna

Goodna, Queensland

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, Redbank Plains

Redbank Plains, Queensland

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, Augustine Heights

Augustine Heights, Queensland

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 and Springfield

Springfield, Queensland

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The seat has been held by the Australian Labor Party

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 since its creation in 1992. In the 2006 state election, Labor's Jo-Ann Miller

Jo-Ann Miller

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  won the seat with 68.5% of the vote. Miller has held the seat since a by-election in February 2000 which was a record vote in a by-election towards a Government. She was the 100th ALP woman elected to Parliament.

Members for Bundamba

First incarnation (1873-1912)
Member		Party	Term
	Simon Fraser	Unaligned	1873-1878
	William Hendren	Unaligned	1878-1880
	James Foote	Unaligned	1880-1888
	Thomas Glassey Thomas Glassey Thomas Glassey was an Irish-born Australian politician. Born in County Armagh, he received no formal education, working as a mill-worker and miner in Scotland and England. He migreated to Australia around 1885, when he became a miner at Bundamba, and was Secretary of the Bundamba Miners Association...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1888-1893
	Lewis Thomas	Ministerialist	1893-1899
	James Cribb	Various1	1899-1912
Second incarnation (1992-present)
Member		Party	Term
	Bob Gibbs Bob Gibbs (Australian politician) Robert James "Bob" Gibbs is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1999, representing Wolston until 1992 and Bundamba thereafter....	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1992-1999
	Jo-Ann Miller Jo-Ann Miller Jo-Ann Roslyn Miller is an Australian politician. She was parliamentary secretary from 2001 to 2006 but then stood down to the back bench...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	2000-present

¹ James Cribb, member for Rosewood 1893-1896, Bundamba 1899-1912 and Bremer 1912-1915 alternately listed his party status as Ministerialist and Opposition. The parliamentary members' register does not list dates for these changes.

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)