Blair Australian House of Representatives Division
Created:	1998
MP:	Shayne Neumann
Party:	Labor
Namesake:	Harold Blair
Electors:	90,977
Area:	5,305 km² (2,048 sq mi)
Demographic:	Rural

The Division of Blair is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

The division was created in 1998 and is named after Harold Blair, an Aboriginal singer and civil rights campaigner. The Division is based in the rural areas west of Brisbane and includes parts of Ipswich and the Scenic Rim and Lockyer Valley regions.

Blair was considered a safe seat for the Liberal Party. The founder of the One Nation Party, Pauline Hanson, contested Blair in 1998, shifting from her previous seat, Oxley, but was defeated.

In the 2006 redistribution, the 2004 Liberal margin of 11.2% was reduced to 5.7%, as Esk, Nanango and Kingaroy were removed and more of Ipswich and Boonah were added. Blair had been rated as having received more funding promises from the Howard Government than any other electorate in the country.^[1]

Contents 1 Members 2 Election results 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Members

Member		Party	Term
	Cameron Thompson	Liberal	1998–2007
	Shayne Neumann	Labor	2007–present

[edit] Election results

Australian federal election, 2007: Blair
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Shayne Neumann	40,663	48.83	+11.99
	Liberal	Cameron Thompson	35,133	42.19	-5.17
	Greens	Peter Luxton	3,262	3.92	+0.68
	Family First	Bevan Smith	1,718	2.06	-1.56
	Independent	Dale Chorley	1,429	1.72	+1.72
	Democrats	David White	735	0.88	-0.44
	Liberty and Democracy	Doug Swanborough	196	0.24	+0.24
	CEC	Robert Theis	143	0.17	-0.41
Total formal votes			83,279	96.13	+2.28
Informal votes			3,352	3.87	-2.28
Turnout			86,631	95.22	-0.54
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Shayne Neumann	45,369	54.48	+10.17
	Liberal	Cameron Thompson	37,910	45.52	-10.17
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+10.17

Australian federal election, 2004: Blair
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cameron Thompson	42,683	52.19	+8.28
	Labor	Shayne Neumann	25,709	31.44	+1.06
	One Nation	David Chidgey	4,330	5.29	-9.69
	Family First	Priscilla Smith	2,982	3.65	+3.65
	Greens	Sarai E O'Reilly-Reis	2,406	2.94	-0.20
	New Country	Alan Price	1,691	2.07	+2.07
	Democrats	Neal McKenzie	1,049	1.28	-2.32
	Great Australians	John Bennett	473	0.58	+0.56
	CEC	Rodney Stapleton	458	0.56	+0.29
Total formal votes			81,781	94.22	-0.47
Informal votes			5,019	5.78	+0.47
Turnout			86,800	94.83	-1.09
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	Cameron Thompson	50,057	61.21	+4.59
	Labor	Shayne Neumann	31,724	38.79	-4.59
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.59

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?electorate=Blair
• http://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/B/Blair.htm

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