| Inala Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Electoral map of Inala 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Margie Nightingale | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | The suburb ofInala | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 35,716 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 52 km2 (20.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Inner-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°37′S152°57′E / 27.617°S 152.950°E /-27.617; 152.950 | ||||||||||||||
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Theelectoral district of Inala is anelectoral district of theLegislative Assembly of Queensland in south-westBrisbane. It includes the suburbs ofInala,Ellen Grove,Forest Lake,Doolandella,Durack,Wacol,Richlands and parts ofOxley. It borders the electoral districts ofMount Ommaney,Miller,Algester,Jordan,Bundamba andMoggill.[1][2]
The Inala electoral district was created in the 1990 redistribution as part of theone vote one value reforms underWayne Goss, and was contested for the first time at the1992 election.
For its entire existence, it has been held by theLabor Party.Henry Palaszczuk, the seat's first member, transferred fromArcherfield to Inala upon Inala's creation in 1992. He went on to become a senior minister in theBeattie government. Henry retired in 2006 and was succeeded by his daughter and former member,Annastacia Palaszczuk, who was thePremier of Queensland from 2015 to 2023.
For most of its existence, Inala has been a comfortably safe Labor seat, and on several occasions it wasthe safest Labor seat in the state. The only time the Labor hold on Inala was seriously threatened was in2012, when Annastacia lost over 17 percent of her primary vote from2009–to date, the only time that Labor hasn't won the seat outright on the primary vote. She suffered a 14-point two-party swing, reducing her majority to 6.2 percent. Annastacia was elected as leader of what remained of Labor, and led her party back to government in2015. Along the way, she reverted Inala to its traditional status as a comfortably safe Labor seat; her majority ballooned to 25 percent, the second-safest seat in the entire chamber. She consolidated her majority in2017 and2020, and now sits on a majority of 28.1 percent, the safest seat in the state.
| Member | Party | Term | |
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| Henry Palaszczuk | Labor | 1992–2006 | |
| Annastacia Palaszczuk | Labor | 2006–2023 | |
| Margie Nightingale | Labor | 2024-present | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labor | Margie Nightingale | 15,227 | 47.13 | −20.29 | |
| Liberal National | Trang Yen | 9,104 | 28.18 | +11.64 | |
| Greens | Linh Nguyen | 3,925 | 12.15 | +4.44 | |
| Independent | Kieu Oanh Do | 1,495 | 4.63 | +4.63 | |
| One Nation | Carl Cassin | 1,386 | 4.29 | −0.26 | |
| Animal Justice | Van Tuan Andy Nguyen | 1,168 | 3.62 | +3.62 | |
| Total formal votes | 32,305 | 95.19 | +0.09 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,632 | 4.81 | −0.09 | ||
| Turnout | 33,937 | 86.80 | −0.05 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Margie Nightingale | 20,235 | 62.64 | −15.53 | |
| Liberal National | Trang Yen | 12,070 | 37.36 | +15.53 | |
| Laborhold | Swing | −15.53 | |||