Electoral district of Clayfield

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2008 map

Clayfield is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. It is centred on the inner northern suburb of Clayfield in the state capital of Brisbane.

The seat was first created in 1950, and consistently returned members for the Liberal Party until its abolition in 1977. The bulk of the seat was merged into nearby Merthyr.

It was recreated in 1992 as part of the electoral reforms that ended the malapportionment of the Bjelke-Petersen era. Although it was created as a notionally Labor seat, it was located in ancestrally Liberal territory. The bulk of the seat came from the abolished Merthyr, and its last member, Liberal Santo Santoro, won the seat on a four percent swing. Santoro would go on to serve as a minister in the Borbidge government. Santoro was re-elected in 1996 and 1998, but was defeated in a shock result in 2001 by actress and Labor candidate Liddy Clark. Clark held on to the seat for two terms, but after a controversy-scarred term as a minister, was defeated by Liberal candidate Tim Nicholls in 2006.

A redistribution in 2008 made Clayfield notionally Labor by 0.2%, but the Liberal National Party achieved a swing strong enough for Nicholls to retain his seat in the 2009 election.

Nicholls was the last deputy leader of the state Liberal Party from 2007 to 2009, served as state Treasurer in the Newman government, and was leader of the LNP from 2016 to 2017.

Members for Clayfield

First incarnation (1950–1977)
Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	Harold Taylor	Liberal	1950–1963
Template:Australian party style|	John Murray	Liberal	1963–1976
Template:Australian party style|	Ivan Brown	Liberal	1976–1977
Second incarnation (1992–present)
Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	Santo Santoro	Liberal	1992–2001
Template:Australian party style|	Liddy Clark	Labor	2001–2006
Template:Australian party style|	Tim Nicholls	Liberal	2006–2008
Template:Australian party style|		Liberal National	2008–present

Election results

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

  Liberal/Liberal National

  Labor

  Greens

  Katter's Australian

  Australian Democrats

  Independent

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Two-party-preferred vote results in Clayfield

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External links

• Electorate profile (Antony Green, ABC)