Electoral district of Southern Downs

State electoral district of Queensland, Australia

28°20′S 150°42′E / 28.333°S 150.700°E / -28.333; 150.700

Electorates around Southern Downs:
Warrego	Condamine	Lockyer
Warrego	Southern Downs	Scenic Rim
New South Wales	New South Wales	New South Wales

Southern Downs is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 2001 as a replacement for Warwick.^[1]

The district takes in the southern parts of the Darling Downs region along the New South Wales border. It includes the major towns of Warwick, Stanthorpe, and Goondiwindi and extends westward almost to St George. It includes several smaller communities such as:

Darling Downs has traditionally been a conservative area, and Southern Downs is no exception. It has been a comfortably safe seat for the Liberal National Party and its predecessor, the National Party for its entire existence. Predecessor seat Warwick had been in the hands of a non-Labor party since 1947.

The seat's first member, Lawrence Springborg, transferred from Warwick in 2001. He served as the last leader of the Queensland branch of the National Party for a few months in 2008, having previously served in that post from 2003 to 2006. He served as the first leader of the LNP from 2008 to 009, and served as leader again from 2015 to 2016. He also served as a minister in the Newman government.

Members for Southern Downs

	Party	Term
Lawrence Springborg	National	2001–2008
Lawrence Springborg	Liberal National	2008–2017
James Lister	Liberal National	2017–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Southern Downs.[edit]

2020 Queensland state election: Southern Downs^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	James Lister	16,285	51.60	+10.39
	Labor	Joel Richters	8,198	25.98	+9.09
	One Nation	Rosemary Moulden	3,182	10.08	−10.30
	Shooters, Fishers, Farmers	Malcolm Richardson	1,398	4.43	+4.43
	Greens	Tom Henderson	1,309	4.15	−0.17
	Legalise Cannabis	Deborah Waldron	1,189	3.77	+3.77
Total formal votes			31,561	97.66	+1.32
Informal votes			756	2.34	−1.32
Turnout			32,317	89.70	−0.80
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	James Lister	20,229	64.09	−4.00
	Labor	Joel Richters	11,332	35.91	+4.00
	Liberal National hold		Swing	−4.00

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Primary vote results in Southern Downs (Parties that have never gotten 5% of the vote are omitted)

National/Liberal National

Labor

One Nation

Katter's Australian

Greens

Family First

Independent

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Two-candidate-preferred vote results in Southern Downs

References

^ "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2020.
^ 2020 State General Election – Southern Downs – District Summary, ECQ.
^ https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/qld/2020/guide/sdow