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Mirani
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Mirani; Queensland—Legislative Assembly
	Electoral map of Mirani 2017
State	Queensland
MP	Stephen Andrew
Party	One Nation
Namesake	Mirani
Electors	34,141 (2020)
Area	63,290 km2 (24,436.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Provincial and rural
Coordinates	22°21′S 149°13′E / 22.350°S 149.217°E
	Electorates around Mirani:

Mirani is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It is represented by Stephen Andrew, of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.^[1]

It covers much of the Queensland coast between the cities of Rockhampton and Mackay, as well as the hinterland west of Mackay. Towns include St Lawrence, Carmila, Sarina and Eungella. The district is named after the town of Mirani.

Mirani was historically a safely conservative seat, and was held by the Country Party and its successors the National Party and Liberal National Party from 1947 to 2015. A redistribution in 2008 made Mirani a notionally Labor held seat with a 1.2% margin, but veteran incumbent Ted Malone achieved a swing strong enough to retain this seat at the 2009 election. Malone retired at the 2015 state election, at which Jim Pearce, formerly Labor member for abolished Fitzroy from 1989 to 2009, became only the second Labor member ever to win Mirani.

Pearce was subsequently defeated at the 2017 election by Stephen Andrew, of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.

Members for Mirani edit

	Party	Term
Edward Swayne	Liberal	1912–1918
	National	1918–1920
	Northern Country	1920–1923
	Country	1923–1925
	CPNP	1925–1935
Ted Walsh	Labor	1935–1947
Ernie Evans	Country	1947–1965
Tom Newbery	Country	1965–1974
Tom Newbery	National	1974–1980
Jim Randell	National	1980–1994
Ted Malone	National	1994–2008
Ted Malone	Liberal National	2008–2015
Jim Pearce	Labor	2015–2017
Stephen Andrew	One Nation	2017–present

Election results edit

2020 Queensland state election: Mirani^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Shane Hamilton	9,412	31.97	−4.78
	One Nation	Stephen Andrew	9,320	31.66	−0.38
	Liberal National	Tracie Newitt	8,123	27.59	+0.69
	NQ First	Jason Borg	1,200	4.08	+4.08
	Greens	Ben Watkin	715	2.43	−1.90
	Civil Liberties & Motorists	Nick Byram	342	1.16	+1.16
	United Australia	Tepepe Borg	329	1.12	+1.12
Total formal votes			29,441	96.25	−0.29
Informal votes			1,146	3.75	+0.29
Turnout			30,587	89.59	−1.54
Notional two-party-preferred count^[a]
	Liberal National	Tracie Newitt		53.20
	Labor	Shane Hamilton		46.80
Two-candidate-preferred result
	One Nation	Stephen Andrew	17,363	58.98	+4.16
	Labor	Shane Hamilton	12,078	41.02	−4.16
	One Nation hold		Swing	+4.16

References edit

^ "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2020.
^ 2020 State General Election – Mirani – District Summary, ECQ.
^ https://antonygreen.com.au/analysis-of-the-2020-queensland-election-result/