The district of Stafford is a Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

 electoral district in the state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

Australia

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.

It is located in the inner northern residential suburbs of Brisbane

Brisbane

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. Suburbs in the electorate include Stafford

Stafford, Queensland

Stafford is a northern suburb of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia.A predominantly residential suburb, including some original Queenslander-style homes and a significant number of post-war Queensland Housing Commission homes on quarter-acre blocks built around the 1940s and...

, Chermside

Chermside, Queensland

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, Gordon Park

Gordon Park, Queensland

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, Kedron

Kedron, Queensland

Kedron is a northern suburb of Brisbane, Australia, centred on Gympie Road and Kedron Brook. It is close to Westfield Chermside shopping centre in the neighbouring suburb of Chermside...

, Lutwyche

Lutwyche, Queensland

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, Stafford Heights

Stafford Heights, Queensland

Stafford Heights is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 8 km north of the Brisbane central business district and is named after its neighbour Stafford.-External links:* *...

 and parts of Albion

Albion, Queensland

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, Chermside West

Chermside West, Queensland

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, Wavell Heights

Wavell Heights, Queensland

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 and Wooloowin

Wooloowin, Queensland

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. The Electorate includes the Prince Charles Hospital

Prince Charles Hospital

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.

History and political profile

Stafford was first formed in 1972, when it was won by the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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. This changed in 1974 when the seat went to Terry Gygar

Terry Gygar

Terry Gygar RFD is an Australian academic and a former member of the Queensland Parliament. He is a former Army officer with experience in Vietnam....

 of the Liberal Party. Gygar held the seat until 1983, at which point he lost it to Denis Murphy

Denis Murphy (Australian politician)

Dr. Denis Murphy , was an Australian Labor Party politician, historian and biographer.Murphy taught as an academic at the University of Queensland, writing extensively on the history of Labor in that state...

, but after Murphy's death in 1984 Gygar was able to retake the seat in the by-election. Gygar was re-elected in the election of 1986 but lost the seat at the 1989 election to Rod Welford

Rod Welford

Rodney Jon Welford is the current Chief Executive of the Australian Council of Recycling Inc, the national peak industry body for the recycling industry in Australia...

 of Labor.

In 1992 the seat was abolished, and Welford moved to Everton

Electoral district of Everton

The district of Everton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.The division encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's north west between the Kedron Brook and the South Pine River, including Everton Park, Everton Hills, McDowall and Albany Creek...

. But a redistribution saw the seat recreated in 2001 after Chermside

Electoral district of Chermside

Chermside was the name of two incarnations of an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Both districts were based in the north-eastern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Chermside. The first existed from 1950 to 1960 and the second from...

 and Kedron

Electoral district of Kedron

Kedron was the name of two incarnations of an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Both districts were based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Kedron. The first existed from 1950 to 1972 and the second from 1992 to...

 were amalgamated. The seat remained in Labor's hands after the 2001, 2004 and 2006 elections.

Members for Stafford

First incarnation (1972–1992)
Member		Party	Term
	William Harvey	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...	1972–1974
	Terry Gygar Terry Gygar Terry Gygar RFD is an Australian academic and a former member of the Queensland Parliament. He is a former Army officer with experience in Vietnam....	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...	1974–1983
	Denis Murphy Denis Murphy (Australian politician) Dr. Denis Murphy , was an Australian Labor Party politician, historian and biographer.Murphy taught as an academic at the University of Queensland, writing extensively on the history of Labor in that state...	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...	1983–1984
	Terry Gygar Terry Gygar Terry Gygar RFD is an Australian academic and a former member of the Queensland Parliament. He is a former Army officer with experience in Vietnam....	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...	1984–1989
	Rod Welford Rod Welford Rodney Jon Welford is the current Chief Executive of the Australian Council of Recycling Inc, the national peak industry body for the recycling industry in Australia...	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...	1989–1992
Second incarnation (2001–present)
Member		Party	Term
	Terry Sullivan Terry Sullivan (Australian politician) Terence Boland "Terry" Sullivan is a former Australian politician. He was born in Brisbane. Before entering politics he was a school teacher, and a member of the Queensland Association of Teachers and Independent Schools. In 1981, he joined the Australian Labor Party...	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...	2001–2006
	Stirling Hinchliffe Stirling Hinchliffe Stirling James Hinchliffe is an Australian politician. Born in Dalby, Queensland, he was educated at state schools and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland. He was a property industry analyst, policy manager, policy advisor and executive officer before his entry into...	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...	2006–present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)