The division of Ashgrove is a Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 electoral division in the state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

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.

It is located in the northern suburbs of Brisbane

Brisbane

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, encompassing Alderley

Alderley, Queensland

Alderley is a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is north-west of the CBD. It is surrounded by Newmarket in the south, Ashgrove and Enoggera in the west, Grange and Stafford in the east and Kedron and Everton Park in the north. At the 2006 census, it had a populatio of 5,068.In...

, Ashgrove

Ashgrove, Queensland

Ashgrove is an inner suburb of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, located approximately 4 km north-west of the Brisbane CBD. Ashgrove is a leafy residential suburb, characterised by its hilly terrain and characteristic Ashgrovian houses built in the early 20th century...

, Enoggera

Enoggera, Queensland

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, The Gap

The Gap, Queensland

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, and Newmarket

Newmarket, Queensland

Newmarket is an inner north-western suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located approximately 5 km from the Brisbane central business district and is surrounded by the suburbs of Alderley to the north, Ashgrove to the west, Kelvin Grove to the south, and Wilston to the east...

. The electorate also contains the Enoggera Army Barracks and the Enoggera Reservoir, a state forest.

Kate Jones

Kate Jones

Kate Jennifer Jones is an Australian politician and Queensland Government minister. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party and was elected in the seat of State Electorate of Ashgrove in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 2006 which was previously held by former Speaker of the Queensland...

 of the Australian Labor Party

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 is the current Member for Ashgrove. Jones won the seat in 2006 following the retirement of long-serving member Jim Fouras

Jim Fouras

Demetrios "Jim" Fouras is a former Australian politician. Born in Greece, he migrated to Queensland where he was a research chemist and then a marketing economist with the Department of Primary Industries. In 1977, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for South...

 (ALP), a former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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. It will notably be contested by Campbell Newman

Campbell Newman

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 in 2012

Next Queensland state election

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, who has to win in order to be successful in his bid to be Premier.

Polling

Ashgrove polling

Date	Poll	2PP vote Two-party-preferred vote In politics, the two-party-preferred vote , or two-candidate-preferred vote , in an election or opinion poll uses preferential voting to express the electoral result after the distribution of preferences...
ALP	LNP
Nov 2011	ReachTEL	46%	54%
Oct 2011	ReachTEL	43.5%	56.5%
Sept 2011	ReachTEL	48.0%	52.0%
Jul 2011	Newspoll	45%	55%
May 2011	ReachTEL	50.1%	49.9%
May 2011	LNP	47%	53%
2009 Election Queensland state election, 2009 The Queensland state election was held to elect members to the unicameral Parliament of Queensland on 21 March 2009. The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a...		57.1%	42.9%
2006 Election		58.1%	41.9%
2004 Election		64.7%	35.3%
2001 Election		65.0%	35.0%

Members for Ashgrove

Member		Party	Term
	Sir Douglas Tooth	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1960–1974
	John Greenwood	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1974–1983
	Tom Veivers Tom Veivers Thomas Robert Veivers is a former Australian cricketer who played in 21 Tests from 1963 to 1967. He was an all-rounder who bowled right arm off-spin bowler and batted left-handed. He later had a brief political career, holding the seat of Ashgrove in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1983...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1983–1986
	Alan Sherlock Alan Sherlock Alan Sherlock is a former Australian politician.A former Scout Commissioner, Sherlock was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1986 as the Liberal member for Ashgrove. He was defeated in 1989; he subsequently contested the federal seat of Petrie unsuccessfully in 1993.-References:...	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1986–1989
	Jim Fouras Jim Fouras Demetrios "Jim" Fouras is a former Australian politician. Born in Greece, he migrated to Queensland where he was a research chemist and then a marketing economist with the Department of Primary Industries. In 1977, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for South...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1989–2006
	Kate Jones Kate Jones Kate Jennifer Jones is an Australian politician and Queensland Government minister. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party and was elected in the seat of State Electorate of Ashgrove in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 2006 which was previously held by former Speaker of the Queensland...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	2006–present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)

References:

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