Inala
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Electoral map of Inala 2017
StateQueensland
MPAnnastacia Palaszczuk
PartyLabor
NamesakeThe suburb of Inala
Electors35,716 (2020)
Area52 km2 (20.1 sq mi)
DemographicInner-metropolitan
Coordinates27°37′S 152°57′E / 27.617°S 152.950°E / -27.617; 152.950
Electorates around Inala:
Moggill Mount Ommaney Miller
Bundamba Inala Algester
Jordan Jordan Algester
Electoral map of Inala 2008

The electoral district of Inala is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in south-west Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Inala, Ellen Grove, Forest Lake, Doolandella, Durack, Wacol, Richlands and parts of Oxley. It borders the electoral districts of Mount Ommaney, Miller, Algester, Jordan, Bundamba and Moggill.[1][2]

The Inala electoral district was created in the 1990 redistribution as part of the one vote one value reforms under Wayne Goss, and was contested for the first time at the 1992 election.

For its entire existence, it has been held by the Labor Party. Henry Palaszczuk, the seat's first member, transferred from Archerfield to Inala upon Inala's creation in 1992. He went on to become a senior minister in the Beattie government. Henry retired in 2006 and was succeeded by his daughter and current member, Annastacia Palaszczuk, who was the Premier of Queensland from 2015 to 2023.

For most of its existence, Inala has been a comfortably safe Labor seat, and on several occasions it was the safest Labor seat in the state. The only time the Labor hold on Inala was seriously threatened was in 2012, when Annastacia lost over 17 percent of her primary vote from 2009–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 in 2015. 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 in 2017 and 2020, and now sits on a majority of 28.1 percent, the safest seat in the state.

Members for Inala

MemberPartyTerm
  Henry Palaszczuk Labor 1992–2006
  Annastacia Palaszczuk Labor 2006–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Inala.[edit]
2020 Queensland state election: Inala[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Annastacia Palaszczuk 19,888 67.42 −0.54
Liberal National Miljenka Perovic 4,879 16.54 −4.15
Greens Peter Murphy 2,275 7.71 −3.63
One Nation Scott Reid 1,341 4.55 +4.55
Legalise Cannabis Nigel Quinlan 734 2.49 +2.49
Independent Terry Jones 197 0.67 +0.67
Civil Liberties & Motorists Michael Vidal 183 0.62 +0.62
Total formal votes 29,497 95.10 +2.25
Informal votes 1,521 4.90 −2.25
Turnout 31,018 86.85 +0.27
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Annastacia Palaszczuk 23,057 78.17 +2.07
Liberal National Miljenka Perovic 6,440 21.83 −2.07
Labor hold Swing+2.07
Primary vote results in Inala (Parties that have never gotten 5% of the vote are omitted)
  Labor
  Liberal/Liberal National
  Greens
  One Nation
  Katter's Australian
  Australian Democrats
  Indigenous Peoples
  Independent
Two-candidate-preferred vote results in Inala

References

  1. ↑ "State District Map of Inala" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "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. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  3. ↑ 2020 State General Election – Inala – District Summary, ECQ.
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