| Bulimba Queensland—Legislative Assembly |
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Bulimba (2008—) |
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| State or territory: | Queensland |
| Dates current: | 1873–present |
| MP: | Di Farmer |
| Party: | Labor |
| Namesake: | Bulimba |
Bulimba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
The electorate covers the inner eastern suburbs of Brisbane. It is bounded on the north and the west by the Brisbane River and, as at the 2009 election, covers the suburbs of Bulimba, Balmoral, Cannon Hill, Hawthorne, Morningside, Norman Park, Murrarie and Seven Hills. The boundaries have changed relatively little since 1923; prior to that, the boundaries extended as far east as Wynnum and as far south-east as Mount Gravatt and Cleveland.
Bulimba has existed continuously since the 1873 election, originally covering most of the outer south-east of Brisbane. Since the 1923 redistribution, Bulimba has been a safe seat for the Labor Party. The party only lost the seat on two occasions; the first being at the 1929 election when Bulimba returned Queensland's first woman Member of Parliament, Irene Longman of the Country and Progressive National Party, for one term; the second being when Robert Gardner defected with 21 other Labor MLAs to form the Queensland Labor Party, but was defeated at the election immediately following. Former member Jack Houston was the state's Opposition Leader from 1966 until 1974.
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| Member | Party | Term | |
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| William Hemmant | 1873–1876 | ||
| James Johnston | 1876 | ||
| George Grimes | 1876–1878 | ||
| Frederick Swanwick | 1878–1882 | ||
| John Francis Buckland | Liberal | 1882–1892 | |
| James Dickson | Independent | 1892–1896 | |
| Ministerial | 1896–1901 | ||
| Walter Barnes | Ministerial | 1901–1903 | |
| Conservative | 1903–1909 | ||
| Ministerial/Queensland Liberal | 1909–1915 | ||
| Hugh McMinn | Labor | 1915–1918 | |
| Walter Barnes | Nationalist | 1918–1922 | |
| United | 1922–1923 | ||
| Albert Wright | Labor | 1923–1929 | |
| Irene Longman | Country and Progressive National | 1929–1932 | |
| William Copley | Labor | 1932–1938 | |
| George Marriott | Labor | 1938–1941 | |
| Independent Labor | 1941–1950 | ||
| Robert Gardner | Labor | 1950–1957 | |
| Queensland Labor | 1957 | ||
| Jack Houston | Labor | 1957–1980 | |
| Ron McLean | Labor | 1980–1992 | |
| Pat Purcell | Labor | 1992–2009 | |
| Di Farmer | Labor | 2009–present | |
| Queensland state election, 2009: Bulimba[1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Di Farmer | 13,131 | 47.7 | -9.6 | |
| Liberal National | Paul Walker | 10,197 | 37.1 | +7.3 | |
| Greens | Angela Dean | 3,202 | 11.6 | +0.2 | |
| DS4SEQ | Angela Wright | 976 | 3.5 | +3.5 | |
| Total formal votes | 27,506 | 98.2 | |||
| Informal votes | 436 | 11.6 | |||
| Turnout | 27,942 | 90.0 | |||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Di Farmer | 14,968 | 57.8 | -8.3 | |
| Liberal National | Paul Walker | 10,940 | 42.2 | +8.3 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -8.3 | |||