Division of Wright

Wright
Australian House of Representatives Division
Wright; Australian House of Representatives Division
	Division of Wright in Queensland, as of the 2019 federal election.
Created	2009
MP	Scott Buchholz
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Judith Wright
Electors	112,110 (2019)
Area	7,577 km2 (2,925.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural

History[]

The seat was first contested at the 2010 election. The division was created under the Australian Electoral Commission's 2009 Redistribution of Queensland.^[1] The division of Wright covers 7,577 square kilometres, stretching from the western Gold Coast, through the remnant rural areas between Logan City and the NSW border, and around to include the Lockyer Valley Council area west of Ipswich. As well as covering most of the Gold Coast hinterland, Wright includes Beaudesert, Jimboomba, Boonah, Laidley, Gatton, Hatton Vale and Helidon.

The name of the electorate was chosen to honour the poet Judith Wright. The division has been represented since the 2010 election by Scott Buchholz, a member of the Liberal National Party.

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Scott Buchholz (1968–)	Liberal Nationals	21 August 2010 – present	Served as Chief Government Whip in the House under Abbott and Turnbull. Incumbent

2019 Australian federal election: Wright^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Scott Buchholz	43,522	44.92	+3.10
	Labor	Pam McCreadie	18,155	18.74	−4.03
	One Nation	Chris O'Callaghan	13,576	14.01	−6.89
	Greens	Shannon Girard	6,951	7.17	−0.49
	Independent	Innes Larkin	5,165	5.33	+5.33
	United Australia	David Wright	4,747	4.90	+4.90
	Katter's Australian	Matthew Tomlinson	2,613	2.70	+2.70
	Conservative National	Rod Smith	2,164	2.23	+2.23
Total formal votes			96,893	93.92	−1.77
Informal votes			6,269	6.08	+1.77
Turnout			103,162	92.01	−0.23
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Scott Buchholz	62,571	64.58	+4.96
	Labor	Pam McCreadie	34,322	35.42	−4.96
	Liberal National hold		Swing	+4.96

Graph of Primary Vote Results in Wright (Parties that never got 5% of the vote are omitted)

Graph of Two Candidate Preferred Results in Wright

v t Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Queensland
Liberal Nationals (23)	Bonner Bowman Brisbane Capricornia Dawson Dickson Fadden Fairfax Fisher Flynn Forde Groom Herbert Hinkler Leichhardt Longman Maranoa McPherson Moncrieff Petrie Ryan Wide Bay Wright
Labor (6)	Blair Griffith Lilley Moreton Oxley Rankin
Katter's Australian (1)	Kennedy
Abolished	Darling Downs Oxley (1901–1934)
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