| Lockyer Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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 Map of the electoral district of Lockyer, 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Jim McDonald | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal National | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Lockyer Valley | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 34,938 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 2,568 km2 (991.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Rural | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°41′S 152°28′E / 27.683°S 152.467°E | ||||||||||||||
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Lockyer is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.[1]
The district consists primarily of Gatton and Laidley Shires and northern parts of Beaudesert Shire. It includes the major town of Gatton and a number of smaller centres including Laidley, Helidon and Withcott. The eastern parts of the district are part of the outer southern suburbs of Ipswich and Brisbane in the area of Greenmount.
The district is bounded on the west by Toowoomba North, and Toowoomba South. On the southwest and south by Condamine, Southern Downs and Beaudesert. To the north and northwest by Nanango. To the northeast, where it passes south of Ipswich and Brisbane, it is bounded by Ipswich West, Ipswich, Moggill. To the east it shares a boundary with the seat of Logan.
The electorate has been represented by Jim McDonald since the 2017 election. Pauline Hanson came within just 114 votes of being elected at the 2015 election with a 49.78 percent two-candidate vote.
Hanson's subsequent election to the Senate in 2016 precluded her from running in Lockyer again in 2017.
- ^ "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.