Electoral district of Broadwater

Broadwater is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created at the 1991 redistribution.^[1]

Broadwater Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Map of the electoral district of Broadwater, 2017
State	Queensland
MP	David Crisafulli
Party	Liberal National Party
Namesake	Nerang River Estuary
Electors	35,120 (2020)
Area	130 km2 (50.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner-metropolitan
Coordinates	27°51′S 153°24′E
Electorates around Broadwater: Redlands Oodgeroo Coral Sea Coomera Broadwater Coral Sea Theodore Bonney Surfers Paradise

2008 map of Broadwater

The electorate is based on the northern end of the Gold Coast. It includes South Stradbroke Island as well as Labrador, Paradise Point, Runaway Bay and Sanctuary Cove and Coombabah.

Since 2017 the local member has been David Crisafulli, who is the leader of the Liberal National Party and the Premier of Queensland.

Members for Broadwater

Member		Party	Term
	Allan Grice	National	1992–2001
	Peta-Kaye Croft	Labor	2001–2012
	Verity Barton	Liberal National	2012–2017
	David Crisafulli	Liberal National	2017–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Broadwater

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Queensland state election § Broadwater.[edit]

2024 Queensland state election: Broadwater^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	David Crisafulli	20,916	63.99	+4.40
	Labor	Tamika Hicks	7,022	21.48	−5.05
	One Nation	Steven Whitehead	2,244	6.87	+0.94
	Greens	Simon Margan	1,615	4.94	−0.28
	Family First	Peter Edwards	889	2.72	+2.72
Total formal votes			32,686	96.70	−0.09
Informal votes			1,114	3.30	+0.09
Turnout			33,800	88.42	−0.73
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	David Crisafulli	23,311	71.32	+4.75
	Labor	Tamika Hicks	9,375	28.68	−4.75
	Liberal National hold		Swing	+4.75

Primary vote results in Broadwater (Parties with less than 5% of the vote are omitted)

  Liberal National

  Liberal

  National

  Labor

  Greens

  One Nation

  Palmer United/United Australia Party

  Katter's Australian

Two-party-preferred vote vote results in Broadwater