ALP 6.8%
Incumbent MP
Corrine McMillan, since 2017.
Geography
Brisbane. Mansfield covers southeastern parts of the City of Brisbane and small parts of Redland City. Mansfield covers the suburbs of Mansfield, Wishart, Upper Mount Gravatt and Mackenzie, and parts of Mount Gravatt and Mount Gravatt East.
History
The seat of Mansfield has existed since 1972. Conservative MPs held the seat from 1972 until 1989, and apart from two terms the ALP has held it since 1989.
Bill Kaus held the seat from 1972 to 1986. He originally sat as a Liberal, but switched to the National Party in 1983, at the election when the coalition was dissolved and the Nationals decimated the ranks of the Liberal Party in Parliament.
He was succeeded in 1986 by Craig Sherrin, also a National Party MP. Sherrin was defeated in 1989 by ALP candidate Laurel Power.
Power lost in 1995 to Frank Carroll of the Liberal Party. He was defeated in 1998 by Phil Reeves. Reeves was re-elected in 2001, 2004 and 2009, and was promoted to the Bligh government’s ministry after the 2009 election.
In 2012, Labor MP Phil Reeves was defeated by Liberal National candidate Ian Walker. Walker served as a minister in the LNP government from 2013 until 2015. Walker was narrowly re-elected in 2015.
Walker lost to Labor’s Corrine McMillan in 2017. McMillan was re-elected in 2020.
- Ross Dovey (Family First)
- Corrine McMillan (Labor)
- Pinky Singh (Liberal National)
Assessment
Mansfield is a reasonably safe Labor seat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Corrine McMillan | Labor | 14,256 | 46.1 | +6.8 |
| Janet Wishart | Liberal National | 11,874 | 38.4 | -1.8 |
| Rob Walter | Greens | 2,967 | 9.6 | -1.7 |
| Christopher O’Callaghan | One Nation | 715 | 2.3 | -6.8 |
| Brendan Taylor | Legalise Cannabis | 708 | 2.3 | +2.3 |
| Jarrod John Wirth | Independent | 233 | 0.8 | +0.8 |
| Maria Todorova | United Australia | 145 | 0.5 | +0.5 |
| Informal | 826 | 2.6 |
2020 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Corrine McMillan | Labor | 17,551 | 56.8 | +5.2 |
| Janet Wishart | Liberal National | 13,347 | 43.2 | -5.2 |
Booths in Mansfield have been divided into three parts: central, north and south.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in each area, ranging from 56.2% in the south to 60.4% in the north. Labor also won 57.2% on the pre-poll vote.
The Greens came third, with a primary vote ranging from 8.8% in the south to 13.2% in the north.
| Voter group | GRN prim % | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| Central | 9.4 | 56.8 | 2,769 | 9.0 |
| North | 13.2 | 60.4 | 1,891 | 6.1 |
| South | 8.8 | 56.2 | 1,695 | 5.5 |
| Pre-poll | 9.2 | 57.2 | 12,315 | 39.9 |
| Other votes | 9.6 | 55.9 | 12,228 | 39.6 |
Election results in Mansfield at the 2020 Queensland state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal National Party and the Greens.
It’s been confirmed on the LNP’s website that LNP by Pinky Singh, a public relations consultant, and LNP’s candidate for McConnel in 2020. Is the LNP’s candidate in the seat of Mansfield. A union poll a couple months ago in Australian had Labor leading here. The poll out today in Courier Mail which had Labor and the LNP statewide at 50-50. Hardly puts doubt in that poll considering the poll confirmed the LNP were doing better in the regions rather then in South East Queensland. Labor Mansfield MP Corrine McMillan with the incumbency advantage would be favored have the edge here.
The problem with contesting in multiple seats is people will not view you as a genuine local. That didn’t matter for Steven Miles or David Crisafulli when they moved electorates, both because they were skilled politicians with experience, and also because they moved to seats that were safe for their party. Pinky Singh may or may not be skilled, but certainly does not meet the other criteria. I predict a Labor hold unless something goes badly wrong.
@Wilson I’ll raise you a counter point, Ali King. ALP Candidate for Maiwar in 2017 (unsuccessful) and then ALP Candidate for Pumicstone in 2020 (successful – now MP). While contesting various seats is a negative, there are various factors determining success, as you touched on a bit too. Classic ones of contesting other seats in other states and being successful include Billy Hughes and Rob Hulls.
As for Mansfield, while I haven’t sat through all the seats to make predictions yet, I’ll say for now ALP Retain. It’s part of the ‘red wall’ in that southern Brisbane band which has generally stuck to the government of the day since 1983 (except the 2015-2017 and a small 1995-1996 period).
Most likely Labor hold. Corrine McMillan can scrape by. Pinky Singh is a candidate and not an incumbent MP, so people may have no knowledge that she switched from McConnel (Brisbane’s CBD) to the Southside. Seat switching can give opponents some political ammunition though.
I think this seat will easily fall to the LNP. It’s a seat that goes with government and Pinky Singh is working hard.
Labor MP is very popular locally and has built a strong reputation. It’ll be a seat the LNP will need to sandbag in 2028.
My prediction is LNP 52.5 TPP.
Labor Retain, Carpetbaggers rarely win seats from opposing parties.
This seat has many LNP-voting areas like around Rochdale which has a lot of estates.
LNP gain.
The semi-rural LNP voting estates around Rochedale have been subdivided in recent years, so the majority of voters in the electorate are suburban. It’s mostly a very multicultural middle suburban seat.
I’m putting it as an LNP gain, but will be close.
@Caleb You do know the current ALP Member won in 2017 while living in Teneriffe? And didn’t move to the area until after being elected? 🙂
LNP gain, 8-11 percent swing off a depressed base at the last election.
About six months ago Mt Gravatt East became the last remaining suburb in Mansfield to make the $1 million+ median house price.
There’s a couple of interesting things about the changed demographics in Mansfield.
1. It’s no longer the buckle in the bible belt. The last census data has Christians in Mansfield only two percent above the state average.
2. It has huge spikes in overseas migration – not just Chinese, but significant numbers of Indians, Taiwanese and Japanese. Interestingly enough although Indian migration lags well behind Chinese additions, they have a higher takeup of citizenship. So the number of eligible voters is roughly 1 to 4 compared to Chinese ethnicity.
3. It has a huge number of young children – 50.3 percent of households in Mansfield were couples with children compared to 42.9 percent for Queensland. There are 39 regulated childcare centres in the electorate. The median age is 3 years younger than the State average.
4. 35.2 percent of people spoke a language other than English at home, compared to 13.5 percent for Queensland.
5. Crime is a major problem, especially car theft and break-ins. Basically youth crime…
@Mark Yore I agree, I think the swing will be at least 8% to the LNP, probably more.
@Ben Raue I believe you have Rochedale and Rochedale South mixed up since you’ve put Rochedale South north of Rochedale itself.
Are you talking about the booth locations on the map? Possible the locations are wrong but probably just weird names.
Hmm yeah in my booth dataset Rochedale South’s location is slightly wrong. I’ll put on my list to correct.