The Mansfield Electorate

History/Trivia

Mansfield is one of the few Brisbane seats that fell to the National Party in the party's glory days between 1983 and 1989. After two terms in Labor hands, Mansfield was lost on the 'Koala Motorway' issue in 1995, but returned to Labor in 1998 after a swing of 6.9%. The victory margin of Labor's Phil Reeves was only 83 votes, and the defeated Liberal MP Frank Carroll challenged the result in the Court of Disputed Returns; however he was unsuccessful. Phil Reeves was re-elected with some comfort in 2001 and retained his majority with no swing in 2006.

Profile

The majority of the Mansfield electorate is made up of the semi-rural districts of Rochedale, Burbank and Sheldon in the south-east corner; and to the west includes the suburbs of Mansfield, Wishart and Macgregor. In the south the electorate crosses into Logan City, including most of the suburb of Rochedale South.