Electoral district of Aspley

Aspley is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.^[1]

Aspley Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Map of the electoral district of Aspley, 2017
State	Queensland
Dates current	1960–present
MP	Bart Mellish
Party	Labor
Namesake	Aspley
Electors	37,792 (2020)
Area	36 km2 (13.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer-metropolitan
Coordinates	27°20′S 153°0′E
Electorates around Aspley: Pine Rivers Pine Rivers Murrumba Everton Aspley Sandgate Everton Stafford Nudgee

2008 map of Aspley

The district is located in the north-eastern residential suburbs of Brisbane, encompassing Aspley, Bridgeman Downs and Carseldine, as well as parts of McDowall, Chermside West, Lawnton and Zillmere. It is now wholly within the local government area of Brisbane City Council, following the redistribution prior to the 2009 election.

The electorate was created at the 1959 redistribution from the former electorate of Chermside. Aspley was a safe Liberal seat until the collapse of the National-Liberal coalition in Queensland in 1983, when first-term Liberal member Beryce Nelson lost the seat to the Nationals' Brian Cahill a former local newsreader. Nelson then joined the Nationals and was subsequently preselected to contest Aspley at the 1986 election. She won and held the seat for that term and then was defeated by the Liberals' John Goss in 1989. Goss was defeated by Labor's Bonny Barry in Labor's landslide victory at the 2001 state election. Barry was herself defeated after three terms by Tracy Davis of the Liberal National Party at the 2009 state election. Davis was defeated at the 2017 state election by Labor's Bart Mellish. Mellish successfully defeated former politician Amanda Cooper (politician) at the 2020 state election. Cooper again contested the 2024 state election where her own scrutineers have reported she was 38 votes behind Mellish.^[2] Mellish was ultimately successful in retaining the electorate.

Members for Aspley

Member		Party	Term
	Fred Campbell	Liberal	1960–1980
	Beryce Nelson	Liberal	1980–1983
	Brian Cahill	National	1983–1986
	Beryce Nelson	National	1986–1989
	John Goss	Liberal	1989–2001
	Bonny Barry	Labor	2001–2009
	Tracy Davis	Liberal National	2009–2017
	Bart Mellish	Labor	2017–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Aspley

2020 Queensland state election: Aspley^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bart Mellish	15,261	45.51	+8.00
	Liberal National	Amanda Cooper	13,579	40.50	+0.77
	Greens	James Hansen	2,997	8.94	−0.52
	One Nation	Walter Hardy	1,141	3.40	−6.19
	Civil Liberties & Motorists	Neil Skilbeck	305	0.91	−0.52
	United Australia	Joshua Morrison	247	0.74	+0.74
Total formal votes			33,530	97.92	+1.75
Informal votes			711	2.08	−1.75
Turnout			34,241	90.60	+0.06
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Bart Mellish	18,494	55.16	+3.99
	Liberal National	Amanda Cooper	15,036	44.84	−3.99
	Labor hold		Swing	+3.99

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

References

1. "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 27 April 2020.
2. "Bart Mellish in fight of his life". heraldsun.com.au. 1 November 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
3. 2020 State General Election – Aspley – District Summary, ECQ.

External links

• Electorate profile (Antony Green, ABC)