| Keppel Queensland—Legislative Assembly |
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Keppel (2008—) |
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| State or territory: | Queensland |
| MP: | Paul Hoolihan |
| Party: | Labor |
| Namesake: | Great Keppel Island |
Keppel is an electoral district in the state of Queensland, Australia.
The electoral district encompasses the central Queensland coast from the mouth of the Fitzroy River in the south to Shoalwater Bay to the north. Major communities located within this electorate include Yeppoon, Emu Park, Byfield, and the Rockhampton suburbs of Parkhurst and Lakes Creek.
The National Party's Vince Lester held the seat from 1992 to his retirement in 2004. Lester's retirement allowed the Australian Labor Party's Paul Hoolihan to claim the seat. Keppel is considered a marginal Labor seat.
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| First incarnation (1912–1960) | |||
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| Member | Party | Term | |
| James Larcombe | Labor | 1912–1929 | |
| Owen Daniel | Country and Progressive National | 1929–1936 | |
| David Daniel | Country | 1936–1944 | |
| Walter Ingram | Labor | 1944–1952 | |
| Viv Cooper | Labor | 1952–1957 | |
| Queensland Labor | 1957 | ||
| Mervyn Thackeray | Labor | 1957–1960 | |
| Second incarnation (1992-present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Vince Lester | National | 1992–2004 | |
| Paul Hoolihan | Labor | 2004–present | |
| Queensland state election, 2009: Keppel[1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Paul Hoolihan | 14,841 | 52.6 | +1.1 | |
| Liberal National | Steve McKenna | 11,118 | 39.4 | +3.5 | |
| Greens | Paul Bambrick | 2,267 | 8.0 | +5.1 | |
| Total formal votes | 28,226 | 98.0 | |||
| Informal votes | 533 | 2.0 | |||
| Turnout | 28,759 | 92.4 | |||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Paul Hoolihan | 15,674 | 57.6 | -0.5 | |
| Liberal National | Steve McKenna | 11,527 | 42.4 | +0.5 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -0.5 | |||