The district of Indooroopilly is an electoral district

Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts

This is a list of current and former electoral divisions for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the state legislature for Queensland, Australia.-Districts in Far North Queensland:*Barron River*Cairns*Cook*Mulgrave*Dalrymple...

 of the Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 in the Australia

Australia

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n state of Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

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The district is based in the western suburbs of Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, and straddles both sides of the Brisbane River

Brisbane River

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. It is named for the suburb of Indooroopilly

Indooroopilly, Queensland

Indooroopilly is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia which is located 7 km west of the Brisbane central business district.- Name derivation and history :...

 and also includes the suburbs of Chelmer

Chelmer, Queensland

Chelmer is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 7 km west of the Brisbane CBD on the Brisbane River. Chelmer is zoned as a residential area, and consists of low-density housing. It has many fine Queenslanders, characterised by wooden verandahs, wide stairways and roofing of...

, Fig Tree Pocket

Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland

Fig Tree Pocket is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 8 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD on the Brisbane River. Placed within a pocket of the Brisbane River, the suburb is relatively remote, devoted mostly to low density housing...

, Graceville

Graceville, Queensland

Graceville is a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located 8 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Graceville is bordered by the Brisbane River to the North-East and West, Oxley Creek to the East, Chelmer to the North and Sherwood to the South....

, Sherwood

Sherwood, Queensland

Sherwood is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 9 km south west of the CBD and borders the Brisbane River. The suburb is mostly low and medium density housing with a retail strip centered along Sherwood Road.-Open Space:...

, St Lucia

St Lucia, Queensland

St Lucia is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 4 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. The suburb is bordered on three sides by the Brisbane River and is dominated by the main campus of the University of Queensland.-History:...

 and Taringa

Taringa, Queensland

Taringa is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 5 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Taringa is mostly residential, except for a small number of commercial buildings mostly clustered along Moggill Road...

. After a redistribution in 2008 it now includes parts of Tennyson

Tennyson, Queensland

Tennyson is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 7 km south of the CBD on the Brisbane River.The area was originally named Softstone by James Strong, one of the original settlers, but by 1897 the name was changed to Tennyson. Tennyson is named after the British poet Alfred Tennyson.The...

. It was first created for the 1992 election.

Indooroopilly is a marginal seat, having been won narrowly by Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 in three elections between 2001 and 2006. On 5 October 2008, sitting member Ronan Lee

Ronan Lee

Ronan Lee is an Irish-Australian political advisor and former Greens member of the Queensland State Parliament. Lee represented the seat of Indooroopilly since he was first elected as an Australian Labor Party member in 2001. Lee joined the Queensland Greens in 2008 citing the Bligh Government's...

 resigned from the Labor Party and defected to the Queensland Greens

Queensland Greens

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. Lee was defeated at the 2009 election

Queensland state election, 2009

The Queensland state election was held to elect members to the unicameral Parliament of Queensland on 21 March 2009. The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a...

 by Liberal National candidate Scott Emerson

Scott Emerson

Scott Anthony Emerson is an Australian politician and former journalist. He has been a Liberal National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2009, representing the electoral district of Indooroopilly in Brisbane's inner-west.- Biography :Emerson was born in Ipswich Queensland,...

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Members for Indooroopilly

Member		Party	Term
	Denver Beanland Denver Beanland Denver Edward Beanland , Australian state politician. Denver was elected as an Alderman of the Brisbane City Council in 1976 and served on that Council, including a period as Deputy Lord Mayor of Brisbane until 1986. Denver was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly, in 1986, as the member...	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1992—2001
	Ronan Lee Ronan Lee Ronan Lee is an Irish-Australian political advisor and former Greens member of the Queensland State Parliament. Lee represented the seat of Indooroopilly since he was first elected as an Australian Labor Party member in 2001. Lee joined the Queensland Greens in 2008 citing the Bligh Government's...	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...	2001—2008
		Greens Queensland Greens The Queensland Greens is a Green party in the Australian state of Queensland, and a member of the federation of the Australian Greens. The party was founded in November 1991 and made its electoral debut at the 1993 federal election...	2008—2009 Queensland state election, 2009 The Queensland state election was held to elect members to the unicameral Parliament of Queensland on 21 March 2009. The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a...
	Scott Emerson Scott Emerson Scott Anthony Emerson is an Australian politician and former journalist. He has been a Liberal National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2009, representing the electoral district of Indooroopilly in Brisbane's inner-west.- Biography :Emerson was born in Ipswich Queensland,...	Liberal National	2009 Queensland state election, 2009 The Queensland state election was held to elect members to the unicameral Parliament of Queensland on 21 March 2009. The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a... —present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)