Electoral district of Burnett

Burnett; Queensland—Legislative Assembly
	Map of the electoral district of Burnett, 2017
State	Queensland
MP	Stephen Bennett
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Burnett River
Electors	33,378 (2017)
Area	25,527 km2 (9,856.0 sq mi)
Coordinates	24°37′S 152°2′E
	Electorates around Burnett:

Burnett is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in central Queensland, Australia.[1]

2008 Burnett Electoral boundaries

It covers most of the coastal region south of Gladstone, as well as coastal and inland regions completely surrounding the district of Bundaberg. Towns within its boundaries include Miriam Vale, Agnes Water, Rosedale, Bargara, Woodgate and Childers. The Burnett River flows through the electoral district, hence its name.

Members for Burnett

First incarnation (1860–1873, 2 members)
Member		Party	Term
	Charles Haly	Squatter-conservative	1860–1863
	Robert Mackenzie	Squatter-conservative	1860–1869
	John Edwards	Squatter-conservative	1863–1865
	Charles Haly	Squatter-conservative	1865–1867
	Ratcliffe Pring	Squatter-conservative	1867–1870
	Charles Haly	Squatter-conservative	1869–1871
	Berkeley Moreton	Independent Liberal	1870–1871
	John Bramston	Squatter-conservative	1871–1873
	Walter Scott	Squatter-conservative	1871–1873
Second incarnation (1873–1932, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	Francis Ivory	Squatter-conservative	1873–1878
	William Henry Baynes	McIlwraith conservative	1878–1883
	Berkeley Moreton	Liberal	1883–1888
	George Hall Jones	Unaligned	1888–1891
	James John Cadell	Conservative	1891–1896
	William McCord	Conservative	1896–1898
	William Ryott Maughan	Labor	1898–1899
	William Kent	Ministerialist	1899–1904
	Alfred Jones	Labor	1904–1909
	Robert Hodge	Ministerialist	1909–1912
	Bernard Corser	Liberal/National	1912–1928
	Robert Boyd	Country and Progressive National	1928–1932
Third incarnation (1960–present, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	Claude Wharton	Country	1960–1974
	Claude Wharton	National	1974–1986
	Doug Slack	National	1986–2001
	Trevor Strong	Labor	2001–2004
	Rob Messenger	National	2004–2008
		Liberal National	2008–2010
		Independent	2010–2012
	Stephen Bennett	Liberal National	2012–present

2017 Queensland state election: Burnett[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal National	Stephen Bennett	12,570	42.4	−4.1
	One Nation	Ashley Lynch	7,907	26.7	+26.7
	Labor	Lee Harvey	7,491	25.3	−4.4
	Greens	Tim Roberts	1,646	5.6	+0.7
Total formal votes			29,614	96.1	−1.5
Informal votes			1,205	3.9	+1.5
Turnout			30,819	90.6	+1.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Stephen Bennett	17,962	60.7	+4.1
	Labor	Lee Harvey	11,652	39.4	−4.1
	Liberal National hold		Swing	+4.1

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"Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
2017 State General Election – Burnett – District Summary, ECQ.

Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860–1929 (second edition), Sydney 2001.
Waterson, Duncan Bruce: Biographical register of the Queensland Parliament 1930–1980 w.an outline of Queensland electorates 1859–1980 / D.B. Waterson and John Arnold

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