LNP 12.2%
Incumbent MP
Deb Frecklington, since 2012.
Geography
South-East Queensland. Nanango covers regional areas to the west of the Sunshine Coast. The seat covers parts of Dalby, Somerset, South Burnett and Toowoomba councils, covering the major centres of Kingaroy, Nanango, Kilcoy, Esk and Cherbourg.
History
The seat of Nanango first existed from 1912 to 1950. It was abolished in 1950 and replaced with Barambah. Barambah was abolished in 2001 and replaced with a new version of Nanango. Both seats were solidly Country/National until the 1998 election.
Joh Bjelke-Petersen was elected to the seat of Nanango in 1947, moving to Barambah in 1950. Bjelke-Petersen became a minister in 1963, and became Premier at the head of the Country/Liberal coalition government in 1968.
Bjelke-Petersen served as Premier for 19 years, until he stepped down in 1987. His resignation triggered the 1988 Barambah by-election.
At that by-election, the seat was won by the Citizens’ Electoral Council’s candidate, Trevor Perrett, who joined the National Party later that year.
Perrett was re-elected in 1989, 1992 and 1995, and served as a minister in the Borbidge coalition government from 1996 to 1998.
In 1998, Perrett was defeated by One Nation candidate Dorothy Pratt.
Pratt, like most One Nation MPs, quit the party in 1999 to sit as an independent. When Barambah was renamed Nanango in 2001, she was re-elected to that seat as an independent. She was again re-elected in 2004, 2006 and 2009.
Pratt retired at the 2012 election, and the seat was won by LNP candidate Deb Frecklington. Frecklington defeated former cricketer Carl Rackemann, running for Katter’s Australian Party, by a 9% margin after preferences. Independent candidate John Dalton came third, with the ALP relegated to fourth place.
Frecklington has been re-elected three times, and led the Liberal National Party for the entire 2017-2020 parliamentary term, stepping down shortly after the 2020 election.
- Val Heward (Labor)
- Anthony Hopkins (Legalise Cannabis)
- Adam Maslen (One Nation)
- Benjamin Mitchell (Family First)
- Jason Miles (Independent)
- Nathan Hope (Independent)
- Deb Frecklington (Liberal National)
- Angus Ryan (Greens)
Assessment
Nanango is a safe LNP seat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Deb Frecklington | Liberal National | 16,085 | 49.9 | +1.9 |
| Mark Stapleton | Labor | 8,908 | 27.6 | +8.4 |
| Tony Scrimshaw | One Nation | 4,737 | 14.7 | -12.7 |
| Maggie O’Rance | Legalise Cannabis | 1,342 | 4.2 | +4.2 |
| John Harbison | Greens | 1,154 | 3.6 | -1.7 |
| Informal | 859 | 2.6 |
2020 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Deb Frecklington | Liberal National | 20,049 | 62.2 | |
| Mark Stapleton | Labor | 12,177 | 37.8 |
Booths in Nanango have been divided into three areas: north, south-east and south-west.
The LNP won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 59.1% in the south-east to 63.7% in the north.
One Nation came third, with a primary vote ranging from 11.4% in the north to 15.6% in the south-west.
| Voter group | ON prim % | LNP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| North | 11.4 | 63.7 | 3,365 | 10.4 |
| South-West | 15.6 | 63.6 | 3,349 | 10.4 |
| South-East | 14.4 | 59.1 | 3,233 | 10.0 |
| Pre-poll | 16.8 | 59.6 | 12,155 | 37.7 |
| Other votes | 13.0 | 65.4 | 10,124 | 31.4 |
Election results in Nanango at the 2020 Queensland state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for the Liberal National Party, Labor and One Nation.
Easy retain for the LNP with PHON possibly making the final TCP count.
Results in Cherbourg (96.4% Indigenous):
Primaries:
* Val Heward (Labor): 43.1% (–21.2%)
* Deb Frecklington (LNP): 24.4% (+8.7%)
* Anthony Hopkins (Legalise Cannabis): 14.2% (+7.9%)
* Benjamin Mitchell (Family First): 4.9% (+4.9%)
* Nathan Hope (Independent): 4.9% (+4.9%)
* Angus Ryan (Greens): 3.3% (–3.4%)
* Adam Maslen (One Nation): 3.3% (+3.8%)
TPP:
* Labor: TBC (–78.0%)
* LNP: TBC (–22.0%)
Yet another huge swing against Labor in an Indigenous community.