The division of Bundaberg is an electoral district of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 in central Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

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.

It covers the city of Bundaberg, as well as the immediate surrounding area, hence its name.

The Liberal National Party's Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey (politician)

John Mark Dempsey is an Australian politician. He represents the division of Bundaberg in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and was first elected at the 2006 State election, originally for the National Party...

 currently holds the seat.

The city's urban population has long made the seat a Labor stronghold. This changed in 2005 when the practices of rogue surgeon Jayant Patel

Jayant Patel

Jayant Mukundray Patel , referred to as Doctor Death is a surgeon who is at the centre of a 2005 scandal in which he was accused of gross incompetence while working at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia...

 at the Bundaberg Base Hospital were uncovered. The Beattie

Peter Beattie

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 government was seriously embarrassed by the subsequent Commissions of Inquiry into the matter, and as a result the seat was considered winnable for the Nationals.

The previous member was ALP

Australian Labor Party

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 Member

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 Nita Cunningham

Nita Cunningham

Julia Irene Cunningham is a former member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. She was first elected in 1998 as the member for Bundaberg...

, a former mayor of Bundaberg

City of Bundaberg

The City of Bundaberg was a Local Government Area located in the Wide Bay-Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, encompassing the centre and inner suburbs of the regional city of Bundaberg...

. Her resignation in 2006 due to ill health trigged the State election.

Members for Bundaberg

Member		Party	Term
	Walter Adams	Conservative	1888-1890
		Ministerial	1890-1892
	George Hall George Hall (Australian politician) George Hall, M.L.C., often styled "Captain Hall", was a South Australian shipping agent, company director and politician....	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...	1892-1893
	Michael Duffy	Ministerial	1893-1896
	Thomas Glassey Thomas Glassey Thomas Glassey was an Irish-born Australian politician. Born in County Armagh, he received no formal education, working as a mill-worker and miner in Scotland and England. He migreated to Australia around 1885, when he became a miner at Bundamba, and was Secretary of the Bundamba Miners Association...	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...	1896-1901
	George Barber	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...	1901-1935
	Bernard McLean	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...	1935-1941
	Frank Barnes	Frank Barnes Labor	1941-1950
	Ted Walsh	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...	1950-1957
		Queensland Labor Queensland Labor Party The Queensland Labor Party was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Australian Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair...	1957-1963
		Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	1963-1969
	Lou Jensen	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...	1969-1976
		Independent	1976-1977
	Jim Blake	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...	1977-1983
	Clem Campbell Clem Campbell Clement Bernard Campbell is a former Australian state politician and was a member of the Parliament of Queensland from 1983 to 1998....	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...	1983-1998
	Nita Cunningham Nita Cunningham Julia Irene Cunningham is a former member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. She was first elected in 1998 as the member for Bundaberg...	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...	1998-2006
	Jack Dempsey Jack Dempsey (politician) John Mark Dempsey is an Australian politician. He represents the division of Bundaberg in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and was first elected at the 2006 State election, originally for the National Party...	National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	2006-2008
		Liberal National	2008-present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)