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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:35%;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Australia" title="List of political parties in Australia">Party</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_National_Party_of_Queensland" title="Liberal National Party of Queensland">Liberal National</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:35%;">Namesake</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Surfers_Paradise,_Queensland" title="Surfers Paradise, Queensland">Surfers Paradise</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:35%;"><a href="/wiki/Voting" title="Voting">Electors</a></th><td class="infobox-data">35,065 (2020)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:35%;">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">24 km<sup>2</sup> (9.3 sq mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:35%;">Demographic</th><td class="infobox-data">Inner-metropolitan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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</span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">27.983°S 153.400°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-27.983; 153.400</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="3" style="width:100%; border: 1px #ddd solid;"> <tbody><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="3" style="background-color:#f0f0ff;padding: 2px 0px; text-align:center;"><b>Electorates around Surfers Paradise:</b></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"> <td style="text-align:center; padding: 3px 0px; width:33%;"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Bonney" title="Electoral district of Bonney">Bonney</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; padding: 3px 0px; width:34%;"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Broadwater" title="Electoral district of Broadwater">Broadwater</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; padding: 3px 0px; width:33%;"><i><a href="/wiki/Coral_Sea" title="Coral Sea">Coral Sea</a></i></td> </tr><tr class="mergedrow"> <td style="text-align:center; vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px 0px; width:33%;"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Southport" title="Electoral district of Southport">Southport</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px 0px; width:34%;font-weight:bold;">Surfers Paradise</td> <td style="text-align:center; vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px 0px; width:33%;"><i><a href="/wiki/Coral_Sea" title="Coral Sea">Coral Sea</a></i></td> </tr><tr class="mergedrow"> <td style="text-align:center; padding: 3px 0px; width:33%;"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Gaven" title="Electoral district of Gaven">Gaven</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Mudgeeraba" title="Electoral district of Mudgeeraba">Mudgeeraba</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; padding: 3px 0px; width:34%;"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Mermaid_Beach" title="Electoral district of Mermaid Beach">Mermaid Beach</a></td> <td style="text-align:center; padding: 3px 0px; width:33%;"><i><a href="/wiki/Coral_Sea" title="Coral Sea">Coral Sea</a></i></td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:QLD_-_Surfers_Paradise_2008.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/QLD_-_Surfers_Paradise_2008.png/220px-QLD_-_Surfers_Paradise_2008.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="239" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/QLD_-_Surfers_Paradise_2008.png 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="326" /></a><figcaption>Electoral map of Surfers Paradise 2008</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Surfers Paradise</b> is an <a href="/wiki/Queensland_Legislative_Assembly_electoral_districts" class="mw-redirect" title="Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts">electoral district</a> of the <a 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Located in the central portion of the <a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland" title="Gold Coast, Queensland">Gold Coast</a>, it is named for <a href="/wiki/Surfers_Paradise" class="mw-redirect" title="Surfers Paradise">Surfers Paradise</a>, the largest suburb of the Gold Coast.<sup id="cite_ref-qpe_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-qpe-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While the Gold Coast has historically tilted conservative, Surfers Paradise has historically been a particularly conservative seat even by Gold Coast standards. It is one of the few areas of the Gold Coast where <a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party_(Queensland_Branch)" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)">Labor</a> has never been competitive at the state level. It was originally a <a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_%E2%80%93_Queensland" class="mw-redirect" title="National Party of Australia – Queensland">National</a> seat for all but one term from its creation in 1972 to 2001, with its best-known member being <a href="/wiki/Rob_Borbidge" title="Rob Borbidge">Rob Borbidge</a>, the last National <a href="/wiki/Premier_of_Queensland" title="Premier of Queensland">Premier of Queensland</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>This tradition was broken after Borbidge resigned in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/Coalition_(Australia)" title="Coalition (Australia)">Coalition</a>'s massive defeat in the <a href="/wiki/2001_Queensland_state_election" title="2001 Queensland state election">2001 state election</a>. Due to voter anger at having to go back to the polls for the second time in three months, the Nationals' primary vote plummeted to eight percent, allowing the former mayor of the Gold Coast, <a href="/wiki/Lex_Bell" title="Lex Bell">Lex Bell</a>, to win as an independent. The seat reverted to form at the <a href="/wiki/2004_Queensland_state_election" title="2004 Queensland state election">2004 state election</a>, in which Bell was defeated by <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia_(Queensland_Division)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division)">Liberal</a> <a href="/wiki/John-Paul_Langbroek" title="John-Paul Langbroek">John-Paul Langbroek</a> on a large swing.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Since then, the seat has been one of the safest seats in Queensland for the Liberals and the merged <a href="/wiki/Liberal_National_Party_of_Queensland" title="Liberal National Party of Queensland">Liberal National Party of Queensland</a>, and has often been <i>the</i> safest LNP seat in the state. It is presently the LNP's fifth-safest seat, with Labor needing a 16.6 percent swing to win it. As a measure of how conservative this seat is, Langbroek suffered a swing of 10 percent against him in <a href="/wiki/2015_Queensland_state_election" title="2015 Queensland state election">2015</a>, but still retained it with a comfortable majority of 19.2 percent. Langbroek served as <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Queensland)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Queensland)">opposition leader</a> from 3 April 2009 - 22 March 2011<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> — the first member from the Liberal side of the merger to hold the post.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The seat is almost entirely within the equally conservative federal seat of <a href="/wiki/Division_of_Moncrieff" title="Division of Moncrieff">Moncrieff</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_for_Surfers_Paradise">Members for Surfers Paradise</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_district_of_Surfers_Paradise&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Members for Surfers Paradise"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Member</th> <th>Party</th> <th>Term </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#008000;">  </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Small" title="Bruce Small">(Sir) Bruce Small</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_%E2%80%93_Queensland" class="mw-redirect" title="National Party of Australia – Queensland">Country</a> </td> <td>1972–1974 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#008000;">  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_%E2%80%93_Queensland" class="mw-redirect" title="National Party of Australia – Queensland">National</a> </td> <td>1974–1977 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#080CAB;">  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Bishop" title="Bruce Bishop">Bruce Bishop</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia_(Queensland_Division)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division)">Liberal</a> </td> <td>1977–1980 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#008000;">  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rob_Borbidge" title="Rob Borbidge">Rob Borbidge</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia_%E2%80%93_Queensland" class="mw-redirect" title="National Party of Australia – Queensland">National</a> </td> <td>1980–<a href="/wiki/2001_Surfers_Paradise_state_by-election" title="2001 Surfers Paradise state by-election">2001</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#888888;">  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lex_Bell" title="Lex Bell">Lex Bell</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_Surfers_Paradise_state_by-election" title="2001 Surfers Paradise state by-election">2001</a>–2004 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#080CAB;">  </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/John-Paul_Langbroek" title="John-Paul Langbroek">John-Paul Langbroek</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia_(Queensland_Division)" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division)">Liberal</a> </td> <td>2004–2008 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#1456F1;">  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_National_Party_of_Queensland" title="Liberal National Party of Queensland">Liberal National</a> </td> <td>2008–present </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election_results">Election results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_district_of_Surfers_Paradise&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Election results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Electoral_results_for_the_district_of_Surfers_Paradise" title="Electoral results for the district of Surfers Paradise">Electoral results for the district of Surfers Paradise</a></div> <div class="excerpt-block"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066933788">.mw-parser-output .excerpt-hat .mw-editsection-like{font-style:normal}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable dablink excerpt-hat selfref">This section is an excerpt from <a href="/wiki/Results_of_the_2020_Queensland_state_election#Surfers_Paradise" title="Results of the 2020 Queensland state election">Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Surfers Paradise</a>.<span class="mw-editsection-like plainlinks"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Results_of_the_2020_Queensland_state_election&action=edit">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><div class="excerpt"> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2020_Queensland_state_election" title="2020 Queensland state election">2020 Queensland state election</a>: Surfers Paradise<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color:#1456F1;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 170px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_National_Party_of_Queensland" title="Liberal National Party of Queensland">Liberal National</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John-Paul_Langbroek" title="John-Paul Langbroek">John-Paul Langbroek</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,470 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.50 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color:#F00011;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 170px"><a href="/wiki/Queensland_Labor_Party" title="Queensland Labor Party">Labor</a> </td> <td class="fn">Brianna Bailey </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,265 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.47 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.06 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color:#10C25B;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 170px"><a href="/wiki/Queensland_Greens" title="Queensland Greens">Greens</a> </td> <td class="fn">Nelson Quinn </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,324 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.96 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color:#f36c21;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 170px"><a href="/wiki/Pauline_Hanson%27s_One_Nation" title="Pauline Hanson's One Nation">One Nation</a> </td> <td class="fn">Leeanne Schultz </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,785 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.26 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color:#FFED00;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 170px"><a href="/wiki/United_Australia_Party_(2013)" title="United Australia Party (2013)">United Australia</a> </td> <td class="fn">Roger McKay </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">684 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.40 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.40 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total formal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">28,528 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">96.51 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.06 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">1,031 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.49 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−2.06 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29,559 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.30 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.34 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9"> <th colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Two-party-preferred_vote" title="Two-party-preferred vote">Two-party-preferred</a> result </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color:#1456F1;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 170px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_National_Party_of_Queensland" title="Liberal National Party of Queensland">Liberal National</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John-Paul_Langbroek" title="John-Paul Langbroek">John-Paul Langbroek</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,890 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">66.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.57 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color:#F00011;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 170px"><a href="/wiki/Queensland_Labor_Party" title="Queensland Labor Party">Labor</a> </td> <td class="fn">Brianna Bailey </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,638 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.78 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.57 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <td style="background-color:#1456F1;"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a 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Kawana">Kawana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Lockyer" title="Electoral district of Lockyer">Lockyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Maroochydore" title="Electoral district of Maroochydore">Maroochydore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Mermaid_Beach" title="Electoral district of Mermaid Beach">Mermaid Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Moggill" title="Electoral district of Moggill">Moggill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Mudgeeraba" title="Electoral district of Mudgeeraba">Mudgeeraba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Nanango" title="Electoral district of Nanango">Nanango</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Ninderry" title="Electoral district of Ninderry">Ninderry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Oodgeroo" title="Electoral district of Oodgeroo">Oodgeroo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Scenic_Rim" title="Electoral district of Scenic 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River">Barron River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Cook" title="Electoral district of Cook">Cook</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party_(Queensland_Branch)" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)">Labor</a> (36)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Algester" title="Electoral district of Algester">Algester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Aspley" title="Electoral district of Aspley">Aspley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Bancroft" title="Electoral district of Bancroft">Bancroft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Bulimba" title="Electoral district of Bulimba">Bulimba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Bundaberg" title="Electoral district of 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Greenslopes">Greenslopes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Hervey_Bay" title="Electoral district of Hervey Bay">Hervey Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Inala" title="Electoral district of Inala">Inala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Ipswich" title="Electoral district of Ipswich">Ipswich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Jordan" title="Electoral district of Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Keppel" title="Electoral district of Keppel">Keppel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Kurwongbah" title="Electoral district of Kurwongbah">Kurwongbah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Logan" title="Electoral district of Logan">Logan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Lytton" title="Electoral district of Lytton">Lytton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Macalister" title="Electoral district of Macalister">Macalister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Mackay" title="Electoral district of Mackay">Mackay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Mansfield" title="Electoral district of Mansfield">Mansfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Maryborough_(Queensland)" title="Electoral district of Maryborough (Queensland)">Maryborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_McConnel" title="Electoral district of McConnel">McConnel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Miller" title="Electoral district of Miller">Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Morayfield" title="Electoral district of Morayfield">Morayfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Mount_Ommaney" title="Electoral district of Mount Ommaney">Mount Ommaney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Mulgrave_(Queensland)" title="Electoral district of Mulgrave (Queensland)">Mulgrave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Mundingburra" title="Electoral district of Mundingburra">Mundingburra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Murrumba" title="Electoral district of Murrumba">Murrumba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Nicklin" title="Electoral district of Nicklin">Nicklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Nudgee" title="Electoral district of Nudgee">Nudgee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Pine_Rivers" title="Electoral district of Pine Rivers">Pine Rivers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Pumicestone" title="Electoral district of Pumicestone">Pumicestone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Redcliffe" title="Electoral district of Redcliffe">Redcliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Redlands" title="Electoral district of Redlands">Redlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Rockhampton" title="Electoral district of Rockhampton">Rockhampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Sandgate" title="Electoral district of Sandgate">Sandgate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Springwood" title="Electoral district of Springwood">Springwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Stafford" title="Electoral district of Stafford">Stafford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Stretton" title="Electoral district of Stretton">Stretton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Thuringowa" title="Electoral district of Thuringowa">Thuringowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Toohey" title="Electoral district of Toohey">Toohey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Townsville" title="Electoral district of Townsville">Townsville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Waterford" title="Electoral district of Waterford">Waterford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_Woodridge" title="Electoral district of Woodridge">Woodridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_of_South_Brisbane" 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