Electoral district of Kawana

Kawana Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Map of the electoral district of Kawana, 2017
State	Queensland
Dates current	2001–present
MP	Jarrod Bleijie
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Kawana Waters
Electors	36,772 (2020)
Area	47 km2 (18.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Provincial
Coordinates	26°44′S 153°5′E
Electorates around Kawana: Buderim Maroochydore Coral Sea Caloundra Kawana Coral Sea Caloundra Caloundra Coral Sea

2008 map

Kawana is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Based on the Sunshine Coast, the district has been held by both sides of politics over its short history.

Geography

A coastal urban electorate lying to the east of the Bruce Highway, Kawana includes the suburbs of Kawana Waters, Sippy Downs, Minyama, Buddina, Parrearra, Warana, Bokarina and Birtinya. It also includes Aroona, Little Mountain, Wurtulla and parts of Currimundi and Caloundra West, all of which were added to the district at the redistribution ahead of the 2009 state election.

Originally the district stretched further north and west to include the suburbs of Buderim, Mountain Creek and Tanawha. However, these parts were redistributed into the new district of Buderim by the aforementioned redistribution.

History

First created for the 2001 state election, Kawana essentially replaced the abolished district of Mooloolah. The sitting member for Mooloolah, Bruce Laming of the Liberal Party, contested the seat, but was defeated by Chris Cummins of the Labor Party, who subsequently retained the seat at the 2004 state election. Cummins became a minister in the government of Peter Beattie before losing his seat to Liberal Party candidate Steve Dickson at the 2006 state election. Dickson transferred to the new seat of Buderim at the 2009 state election and was succeeded by Liberal National candidate Jarrod Bleijie.

Members for Kawana

Member		Party	Term
	Chris Cummins	Labor	2001–2006
	Steve Dickson	Liberal	2006–2008
		Liberal National	2008–2009
	Jarrod Bleijie	Liberal National	2009–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Kawana

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Queensland state election § Kawana.[edit]

2024 Queensland state election: Kawana

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal National	Jarrod Bleijie	19,036	55.6	+4.7
	Labor	Jim Dawson	9,717	28.4	−2.6
	Greens	Ian Simons	3,263	9.5	+0.2
	One Nation	Peter Hinton	2,247	6.5	+0.5
Total formal votes			34,263	96.5
Informal votes			1,229	3.5
Turnout			35,492
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal National	Jarrod Bleijie	21,489	62.7	+3.4
	Labor	Jim Dawson	12,774	37.3	−3.4
	Liberal National hold		Swing	+3.4

Primary vote results in Kawana (Parties that have never gotten 5% of the vote are omitted)

  Liberal/Liberal National

  Labor

  Greens

  One Nation

  Katter's Australian

  Palmer United/United Australia Party

  Independent

Two-party-preferred vote vote results in Kawana

External links

• Map of the electoral district of Kawana, 2017 Archived 16 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Electoral Commission of Queensland
• Electorate profile (Antony Green, ABC)