Electoral district of Inala

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]

Inala Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Electoral map of Inala 2017
State	Queensland
MP	Margie Nightingale
Party	Labor
Namesake	The suburb of Inala
Electors	35,716 (2020)
Area	52 km2 (20.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner-metropolitan
Coordinates	27°37′S 152°57′E
Electorates around Inala: Moggill Mount Ommaney Miller Bundamba Inala Algester Jordan Jordan Algester

Electoral map of Inala 2008

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 was succeeded by his daughter and former member, Annastacia Palaszczuk, who was the Premier of Queensland from 2015 to 2023.

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	2006–2023
	Margie Nightingale	Labor	2024-present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Inala

2024 Inala state by-election^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Margie Nightingale	10,216	37.23	−30.19
	Liberal National	Trang Yen	8,059	29.37	+12.83
	Greens	Navdeep Singh Sidhu	2,790	10.17	+2.46
	Independent	Linh Nguyen	2,502	9.12	+9.12
	Independent	Nayda Hernandez	1,320	4.81	+4.81
	Legalise Cannabis	Nigel Quinlan	1,046	3.81	+1.32
	Independent Democrat	Chris Simpson	986	3.60	+3.60
	Independent Progressives	Edward Carroll	519	1.89	+1.89
Total formal votes			27,438	91.26	−3.84
Informal votes			2,627	8.74	+3.84
Turnout			30,065	77.35	−9.50
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Margie Nightingale	15,544	56.65	−21.52
	Liberal National	Trang Yen	11,894	43.35	+21.52
	Labor hold		Swing	−21.52

This section is an excerpt from 2024 Inala state by-election § Results.[edit]

2020 Queensland state election: Inala^[5]

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

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Inala.[edit]

Primary vote results in Inala (Parties that have never gotten 5% of the vote are omitted)

  Labor

  Liberal/Liberal National

  Greens

  One Nation

  Katter's Australian

  Australian Democrats

  Indigenous Peoples

  Independent

Two-candidate-preferred vote results in Inala

References

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 (PDF) on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
3. "2024 Inala State By-election". Electoral Commission Queensland. 16 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
4. Green, Antony (28 March 2024). "Inala By-election". ABC Elections. ABC. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
5. 2020 State General Election – Inala – District Summary, ECQ.