Division of Bonner

Bonner Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Bonner in Queensland, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	2004
MP	Ross Vasta
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Neville Bonner
Electors	100,853 (2016)
Area	360 km² (139.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Bonner is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created in 2004 and is named after Neville Bonner, the first Aboriginal Australian person to serve in the Australian Parliament. Bonner served in the federal Senate as a Queensland Liberal Senator. Apart from Bonner there are only three other divisions which bear the names of Aboriginal people, Bennelong in New South Wales, Blair in Queensland and Lingiari in the Northern Territory.

The Division of Bonner is located in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, including the suburbs of Chandler, Carindale, Manly, Mount Gravatt, Wishart and Wynnum. The seat had a notional Labor majority when it was created, but was won by the Liberal Party in 2004 by a slight margin. Kerry Rea regained the seat for Labor in 2007. Then Ross Vasta re-took the seat for LNP in the 2010 elections.

Members

Australian federal election, 2016: Bonner^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal National	Ross Vasta	41,756	46.44	−0.36
	Labor	Laura Fraser Hardy	31,344	34.86	−1.15
	Greens	Ken Austin	8,518	9.47	+2.63
	Family First	Andrew Broughton	3,157	3.51	+1.43
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew Linney	2,738	3.05	+3.05
	Independent	Jarrod Wirth	2,396	2.66	+2.66
Total formal votes			89,909	96.94	+1.28
Informal votes			2,838	3.06	−1.28
Turnout			92,747	91.96	−2.07
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Ross Vasta	48,002	53.39	−0.30
	Labor	Laura Fraser Hardy	41,907	46.61	+0.30
	Liberal National hold		Swing	−0.30

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Queensland

Blair Bonner Bowman Brisbane Capricornia Dawson Dickson Fadden Fairfax Fisher Flynn Forde Griffith Groom Herbert Hinkler Kennedy Leichhardt Lilley Longman Maranoa McPherson Moncrieff Moreton Oxley Petrie Rankin Ryan Wide Bay Wright Abolished: Darling Downs Oxley (1901–34)

Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

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