Division of Blair - Citizendia

Blair Australian House of Representatives Division
State or territory:	Queensland
Created:	1998
MP:	Shayne Neumann
Party:	Labor
Namesake:	Harold Blair
Electors:	90,977
Area:	5,305 km² (2,048. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers of the Parliament of Australia; it is the Lower house, the Upper house being the Senate The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. The Commonwealth of Australia is made up of 8 states and territories controlled under a federal system of government Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Shayne Kenneth Neumann (born 26 August 1961) is an Australian politician Political parties in Australia lists political parties in Australia. Harold Blair AM ( 13 September 1924 &ndash 21 May 1976) was an Australian Tenor and Aboriginal activist Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 3 sq mi)
Demographic:	Rural

The Division of Blair is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent

The division was created in 1998 and is named after Harold Blair, an Aboriginal singer and civil rights campaigner. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Harold Blair AM ( 13 September 1924 &ndash 21 May 1976) was an Australian Tenor and Aboriginal activist This is an article about a class of people as identified and defined within Australian law The Division is based in the rural areas west of Brisbane and includes parts of Ipswich and the shires of Boonah and Lockyer (the Local Government Area created through the mergers of Gatton and Laidley). Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland Ipswich is a city and Local Government Area situated on the Bremer River in South East Queensland, Australia. Lockyer Valley Regional Council is a Local Government Area in the Australian state of Queensland. A Local Government Area is an Administrative division of a country that a Local government is responsible for Gatton is a town and the administrative centre of the Lockyer Valley Local Government Area situated in the Lockyer Valley of South East Laidley is a town (pop 2858 situated in the Lockyer Valley of South East Queensland, Australia.

Blair was considered a safe seat for the Liberal Party. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. The founder of the One Nation Party, Pauline Hanson, contested Blair in 1998, shifting from her previous seat, Oxley, but was defeated. Not to be confused with the One Nation program of infrastructure works carried out from 1991 to 1996 by the Keating Labor Government Pauline Lee Hanson ( née Seccombe; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian Politician and former leader of Pauline Hanson's Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The Division of Oxley is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

In the 2006 redistribution, the 2004 Liberal margin of 11. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. 2% was reduced to 5. 7%, as Esk, Nanango and Kingaroy were removed and more of Ipswich and Boonah were added. Esk is a town in South East Queensland, approximately 90 km northwest of Ipswich on the Brisbane Valley Highway. Nanango is a town in the South Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. Kingaroy is an agricultural town in Queensland, Australia, approximately 209 kilometres or about 2 Blair had been rated as having received more funding promises from the Hoawrd Government than any other electorate in the country. [1]

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Cameron Thompson	Liberal	1998—2007
	Shayne Neumann	Labor	2007—present

Election results

Australian federal election, 2007: Blair
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Shayne Neumann	40,663	48. Cameron Paul Thompson (born 1 October 1960) was an Australian politician in Queensland. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. Results House of Representatives preference flows The Nationals had candidates in 13 seats where Three-cornered-contests existed Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Shayne Kenneth Neumann (born 26 August 1961) is an Australian politician Federal elections for the Parliament of Australia were held on Saturday 24 November 2007 after a 6-week campaign in which 13 Federal elections for the Parliament of Australia were held on Saturday 24 November 2007 after a 6-week campaign in which 13 Shayne Kenneth Neumann (born 26 August 1961) is an Australian politician 83	+11. 99
	Liberal	Cameron Thompson	35,133	42. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. Cameron Paul Thompson (born 1 October 1960) was an Australian politician in Queensland. 19	-5. 17
	Greens	Peter Luxton	3,262	3. The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is a Green Australian political party. 92	+0. 68
	Family First	Bevan Smith	1,718	2. The Family First Party is a socially conservative minor Political party in Australia. 06	-1. 56
	Independent	Dale Chorley	1,429	1. In Politics, an independent is a Politician who is not Affiliated with any Political party. 72	+1. 72
	Democrats	David White	735	0. The Australian Democrats is an Australian Political party espousing a centrist or Social liberal ideology 88	-0. 44
	Liberty and Democracy	Doug Swanborough	196	0. The Liberty & Democracy Party (LDP is a moderate libertarian or classical liberal Australian Political party founded in 2001. 24	+0. 24
	Citizens Electoral Council	Robert Theis	143	0. The Citizens Electoral Council of Australia ( CEC) is a minor nationalist political party in Australia affiliated with the international LaRouche Movement 17	-0. 41
Total formal votes			83,279	96. 13	+2. 28
Informal votes			3,352	3. 87	-2. 28
Turnout			86,631	95. Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a Ballot in an Election. 22	-0. 54
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Shayne Neumann	45,369	54. Shayne Kenneth Neumann (born 26 August 1961) is an Australian politician 48	+10. 17
	Liberal	Cameron Thompson	37,910	45. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. Cameron Paul Thompson (born 1 October 1960) was an Australian politician in Queensland. 52	-10. 17
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+10. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. Swing in a British political context is a single figure used as an indication of the scale of voter change between two political parties 17

Australian federal election, 2004: Blair
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cameron Thompson	42,683	52. Federal elections were held in Australia on 9 October, 2004. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. Cameron Paul Thompson (born 1 October 1960) was an Australian politician in Queensland. 19	+8. 28
	Labor	Shayne Neumann	25,709	31. Shayne Kenneth Neumann (born 26 August 1961) is an Australian politician 44	+1. 06
	One Nation	David Chidgey	4,330	5. Not to be confused with the One Nation program of infrastructure works carried out from 1991 to 1996 by the Keating Labor Government 29	-9. 69
	Family First	Priscilla Smith	2,982	3. The Family First Party is a socially conservative minor Political party in Australia. 65	+3. 65
	Greens	Sarai E O'Reilly-Reis	2,406	2. The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is a Green Australian political party. 94	-0. 20
	New Country	Alan Price	1,691	2. The New Country Party is a minor Political party in Australia. 07	+2. 07
	Democrats	Neal McKenzie	1,049	1. The Australian Democrats is an Australian Political party espousing a centrist or Social liberal ideology 28	-2. 32
	Great Australians	John Bennett	473	0. Policies Abolishing Income tax. Making Tax rules apply equally to foreign transactions and companies as Australian ones 58	+0. 56
	Citizens Electoral Council	Rodney Stapleton	458	0. The Citizens Electoral Council of Australia ( CEC) is a minor nationalist political party in Australia affiliated with the international LaRouche Movement 56	+0. 29
Total formal votes			81,781	94. 22	-0. 47
Informal votes			5,019	5. 78	+0. 47
Turnout			86,800	94. Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a Ballot in an Election. 83	-1. 09
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	Cameron Thompson	50,057	61. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. Cameron Paul Thompson (born 1 October 1960) was an Australian politician in Queensland. 21	+4. 59
	Labor	Shayne Neumann	31,724	38. Shayne Kenneth Neumann (born 26 August 1961) is an Australian politician 79	-4. 59
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4. The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. The term swing is used in Australia in a different sense from that employed in Britain, where the term originated (see Swing (politics) 59

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