Electoral district of Thuringowa

Thuringowa is an electorate in the Legislative Assembly of the state of Queensland, Australia.

Thuringowa Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Electoral map of Thuringowa, 2024
State	Queensland
MP	Natalie Marr
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	City of Thuringowa
Electors	36,034 (2020)
Area	261 km2 (100.8 sq mi)
Demographic	Provincial
Coordinates	19°22′S 146°39′E
Electorates around Thuringowa: Hinchinbrook Hinchinbrook Townsville Hinchinbrook Thuringowa Mundingburra Traeger Burdekin Burdekin

Electoral map of Thuringowa 2008

The division encompasses suburbs of the former City of Thuringowa on the western edge of Townsville in North Queensland, stretching from Deeragun in the north to Kelso in the south. It includes the suburbs of Bushland Beach, Shaw, Thuringowa Central, Rasmussen, Condon and Kirwan.^[1][2]

The Electorate is bordered by the Hinchinbrook (North and West), Burdekin (South), Mundingburra and Townsville (both East) Electorates.^[3]

History

The Electoral district of Thuringowa was created relatively recently in 1986, mostly from the western section of the Townsville Electorate.^[4]

Thuringowa Electorate was one of eleven State seats held by Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party from 1998, until it was returned to Labor in the 2001 landslide.

In 2004 the one term sitting member, Anita Phillips did not recontest, instead choosing to challenge Peter Lindsay (unsuccessfully) for the Federal Division of Herbert.^[1]

Labor's Craig Wallace held the seat from 2004.^[1] In the 2006 election Thuringowa went against the statewide trend of a slight swing against Labor, Mr. Wallace achieved a swing towards Labor of 16.2% primary vote and 9.5% two party preferred.^[5] Immediately after the election he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for North Queensland,^[6] and two months later was promoted to Cabinet as the new Minister for Natural Resources and Water and Minister Assisting the Premier in North Queensland when a Cabinet vacancy was created by the resignation of then Attorney-General Linda Lavarch in late October 2006.^[7]

Members for Thuringowa

Member		Party	Term
	Ken McElligott	Labor	1986–1998
	Ken Turner	One Nation	1998–1999
		Independent	1999–2001
	Anita Phillips	Labor	2001–2004
	Craig Wallace	Labor	2004–2012
	Sam Cox	Liberal National	2012–2015
	Aaron Harper	Labor	2015–2024
	Natalie Marr	Liberal National	2024–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Thuringowa

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

2024 Queensland state election: Thuringowa^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Natalie Marr	12,970	41.81	+11.41
	Labor	Aaron Harper	9,102	29.34	−7.56
	Katter's Australian	Reuben Richardson	4,348	14.01	−2.09
	One Nation	Steven Clare	1,996	6.43	−3.37
	Greens	Roxanne Kennedy-Perriman	1,392	4.49	−0.51
	Independent	Natasha Lane	1,216	3.92	+3.92
Total formal votes			31,024	95.2
Informal votes			1,567	4.8
Turnout			32,591	84.41
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Natalie Marr	18,592	59.93	+13.23
	Labor	Aaron Harper	12,432	40.07	−13.23
	Liberal National gain from Labor		Swing	+13.23

Primary vote results in Thuringowa (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)

  Labor

  Liberal National

  National

  Liberal

  One Nation

  Katter's Australian

  Greens

  Australian Democrats

  Palmer United/United Australia Party

  Independent

Two-candidate-preferred vote results in Thuringowa