Electoral district of Broadwater

Broadwater Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Broadwater (2008—)
State	Queensland
MP	Verity Barton
Party	Liberal National Party
Namesake	Nerang River Estuary
Electors	33,794 (2015)
Area	53 km2 (20.5 sq mi)
Coordinates

Broadwater is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created at the 1991 redistribution.

The electorate is based on the northern end of the Gold Coast. It includes South Stradbroke Island as well as Labrador, Paradise Point, Runaway Bay and Sanctuary Cove and Coombabah.

Since 2012 the local member has been Verity Barton of the Liberal National Party.

Members for Broadwater

Member		Party	Term
	Allan Grice	National	1992–2001
	Peta-Kaye Croft	Labor	2001–2012
	Verity Barton	Liberal National	2012–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Broadwater

Queensland state election, 2015: Broadwater

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Verity Barton	13,537	47.46	−3.84
	Labor	Penny Toland	8,844	31.01	−0.64
	Greens	Daniel Kwon	2,145	7.52	+4.31
	Palmer United	Gueorgui Sokolov	1,696	5.95	+5.95
	One Nation	Phil Pollock	1,061	3.72	+3.72
	Family First	Stuart Ballantyne	988	3.46	+1.63
	Independent	Amin-Reza Javanmard	252	0.88	+0.88
Total formal votes			28,523	97.44	−0.27
Informal votes			748	2.56	+0.27
Turnout			29,271	86.62	−1.95
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Verity Barton	14,544	57.19	−4.10
	Labor	Penny Toland	10,885	42.81	+4.10
	Liberal National hold		Swing	−4.10

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)