Electoral district of Inala

Inala
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Inala; Queensland—Legislative Assembly
	Electoral map of Inala 2017
State	Queensland
MP	Annastacia Palaszczuk
Party	Labor
Namesake	The suburb of Inala
Electors	35,716 (2020)
Area	52 km2 (20.1 sq mi)
Coordinates	27°37′S 152°57′E / 27.617°S 152.950°ECoordinates: 27°37′S 152°57′E / 27.617°S 152.950°E
	Electorates around Inala:

Electoral map of Inala 2008

The electoral district of Inala is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in south-west Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Inala, Ellen Grove, Forest Lake, Doolandella, Durack, Wacol, Richlands and parts of Oxley. It borders the electoral districts of Mount Ommaney, Miller, Algester, Jordan, Bundamba and Moggill.^[1]^[2]

The Inala electoral district was created in the 1990 redistribution as part of the one vote one value reforms under Wayne Goss, and was contested for the first time at the 1992 election.

For its entire existence, it has been held by the Labor Party. Henry Palaszczuk, the seat's first member, transferred from Archerfield to Inala upon Inala's creation in 1992. He went on to become a senior minister in the Beattie government. Henry retired in 2006 and handed the seat to his daughter and current member, Annastacia Palaszczuk, who has been the Premier of Queensland since 2015.

For most of its existence, Inala has been a comfortably safe Labor seat, and on several occasions it was the safest Labor seat in the state. The only time the Labor hold on Inala was seriously threatened was in 2012, when Annastacia lost over 17 percent of her primary vote from 2009–to date, the only time that Labor hasn't won the seat outright on the primary vote. She suffered a 14-point two-party swing, reducing her majority to 6.2 percent. Annastacia was elected as leader of what remained of Labor, and led her party back to government in 2015. Along the way, she reverted Inala to its traditional status as a comfortably safe Labor seat; her majority ballooned to 25 percent, the second-safest seat in the entire chamber. She consolidated her majority in 2017 and 2020, and now sits on a majority of 28.1 percent, the safest seat in the state.

Members for Inala[]

Member		Party	Term
	Henry Palaszczuk	Labor	1992–2006
	Annastacia Palaszczuk	Labor	2006–present

Election results[]

2020 Queensland state election: Inala^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Annastacia Palaszczuk	19,888	67.42	−0.54
	Liberal National	Miljenka Perovic	4,879	16.54	−4.15
	Greens	Peter Murphy	2,275	7.71	−3.63
	One Nation	Scott Reid	1,341	4.55	+4.55
	Legalise Cannabis	Nigel Quinlan	734	2.49	+2.49
	Independent	Terry Jones	197	0.67	+0.67
	Civil Liberties & Motorists	Michael Vidal	183	0.62	+0.62
Total formal votes			29,497	95.10	+2.25
Informal votes			1,521	4.90	−2.25
Turnout			31,018	86.85	+0.27
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Annastacia Palaszczuk	23,057	78.17	+2.07
	Liberal National	Miljenka Perovic	6,440	21.83	−2.07
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.07

References[]

^ "State District Map of Inala" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
^ "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2020.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ 2020 State General Election – Inala – District Summary, ECQ.

[1] "State District Map of Inala" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.

[2] "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2020.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[3] 2020 State General Election – Inala – District Summary, ECQ.

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