Inala – Queensland 2012

ALP 21.5%

Incumbent MP
Annastacia Palaszczuk, since 2006.

Geography
South-East Queensland. Inala covers southwestern parts of the City of Brisbane and parts of Ipswich LGA. Inala covers the suburbs of Durack, Richlands, Inala, Carole Park, Camira and parts of Darra, Forest Lake and Springfield .

History
The seat of Inala has existed since 1992, and in that time it has always been held by the ALP, being held successively by two members of the same family.

Henry Palaszczuk won the seat in 1992. He served as a minister from 1998 to 2006, when he retired.

Annastacia Palaszczuk won the seat in 2006, and was re-elected in 2009.

Candidates
Sitting Labor MP Annastacia Palaszczuk is running for re-election. The LNP is running Joanna Lindgreen. Katter’s Australian Party is running Ashley Dodd.

Political situation
Inala is a safe Labor seat.

2009 result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Annastacia Palaszczuk ALP 16,746 64.0 -5.3
Leo Perkins LNP 6,212 23.7 +2.8
Alan Maizey GRN 2,104 8.0 -1.7
Felicity Ryan FF 1,124 4.3 +4.3

2009 two-candidate-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Annastacia Palaszczuk ALP 17,779 71.5 -4.5
Leo Perkins LNP 7,077 28.5 +4.5

Booth breakdown
Booths in Inala have been divided into three areas. Most booths are in the east of the seat, and these have been divided into Inala in the north and Richlands in the south. The remainder of booths in the west of the seat have been grouped together.

The ALP vote peaked at 69% in Inala, and dropped down to 61% in the west. The LNP’s vote peaked at 25.5% in the west and dropped to 19.5% in Inala.

Polling booths in Inala at the 2009 state election. Inala in blue, Richlands in orange, West in green.

 

Voter group ALP % LNP % GRN % Total votes % of votes
Richlands 64.5 24.4 7.0 9,224 35.2
West 61.3 25.5 8.2 6,537 25.0
Inala 69.1 19.5 7.7 5,924 22.6
Other votes 59.9 25.1 10.4 4,501 17.2
Labor primary votes in Inala at the 2009 state election.
Liberal National primary votes in Inala at the 2009 state election.

10 COMMENTS

  1. Jo Lindgren is Neville Bonners Neice. She is from inala and has the background to be a good candidate, but will the electorate be able to get over their belief that labor is best for them when in reality the ALP just assume that downtrodden hardworkers will side with them?

  3. Yes I have to agree with MDMConnell. You could put up coreflutes with the head of toad and the voters there would still vote for it, if it was running for the ALP.
    There isnt much political thought in that district at all

  4. Yet in the neighbouring electorate which is on an almost identical margin the LNP is running at 50/50. Perhaps Inala’s margin will come down simply because of some positive campaigns being run around it and the joint booths will benefit from this.

    Agree however that at this point in time Inala is ‘in the bag’ for the ALP.

  5. I believe Labor have had decades of opportunity to improve the lives of people in the Inala electorate but because it’s always been a safe Labor seat, no priority was given to improve the area. It seems that only when there is a chance of losing that things start happening. Instead of being reactive, they should have been proactive. Don’t be fooled by 5 minutes of gloss over decades of neglect. It’s time for a change and the only real change I can see is Katter’s Australian Party represented by Ashley Dodd.

  8. Ashley Dodd is running a strong campaign there. He lives in the area and his children go to school there. The locals are fed up with the neglect and have had plenty to say on the matter. Dodd just may well be given the job to represent Inala.

  9. Annastacia is from Inala and believes in it. She knows that children are the priority and invests in education. I’m green, but I believe greens preferences are well served here. Inala will be red for many years to come because labour invests in the future.

  10. Well, Inala will be red for many years to come because (as said above) Labor could run a dead dog here and they’d win.

    I’d hope for Labor’s sake that nobody’s getting delusions of grandeur by winning friggin INALA!!

    Be like the Liberals getting excited about winning Vaucluse or Malvern or Moggill…..

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