Electoral district of Beaudesert

Beaudesert Queensland—Legislative Assembly
300px Beaudesert (2008—)
State	Queensland
Dates current	1992–present
MP	Jon Krause
Party	Liberal National Party of Queensland
Namesake	Beaudesert
Electors	35,644 (2015)
Area	4,322 km2 (1,668.7 sq mi)
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Beaudesert is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.

Beaudesert encompasses rural and semi-urban regions located to the south of the Brisbane metropolitan area. Major communities located within this electoral include Beaudesert, Boonah, Aratula, Jimboomba, Tamborine, Canungra, and Rathdowney.

The seat was created at the 1991 redistribution largely from the territory of the abolished seat of Fassifern. It has been a safe seat for the National Party, and its successor the Liberal National Party, since its creation, although former member Aidan McLindon left the LNP in 2010 to form The Queensland Party. He subsequently joined and became state leader of Katter's Australian Party in 2011, but lost his seat in 2012.

Members for Beaudesert

Member		Party	Term
	Kev Lingard	National	1992–2008
		Liberal National	2008–2009
	Aidan McLindon	Liberal National	2009–2010
		Independent	2010
		Queensland	2010–2011
		Australian	2011–2012
	Jon Krause	Liberal National	2012–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Beaudesert

Queensland state election, 2015: Beaudesert

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Jon Krause	15,086	47.47	+0.36
	Labor	Kay Hohenhaus	9,281	29.20	+15.23
	Greens	Pietro Agnoletto	2,613	8.22	−0.11
	One Nation	Robert Bowyer	2,145	6.75	+4.16
	Palmer United	Adele Ishaac	1,989	6.26	+6.26
	Family First	Jeremy Fredericks	668	2.10	+0.47
Total formal votes			31,782	97.69	−0.16
Informal votes			753	2.31	+0.16
Turnout			32,535	91.28	−1.29
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Jon Krause	16,440	57.53	−3.03
	Labor	Kay Hohenhaus	12,138	42.47	+42.47
	Liberal National hold		Swing	−3.03

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)