Electoral district of Inala

Inala Queensland—Legislative Assembly
The Inala electoral district since 2008.
State	Queensland
MP	Annastacia Palaszczuk
Party	Labor
Namesake	The suburb of Inala
Electors	31,518 (2015)
Area	58 km^2 (22.4 sq mi)
Coordinates	27°37′S 152°57′E / 27.617°S 152.950°ECoordinates: 27°37′S 152°57′E / 27.617°S 152.950°E

The electoral district of Inala is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in south-west Brisbane. It includes the suburbs of Inala, Ellen Grove, Carole Park, Camira, Gailes, Wacol, Darra, and Richlands. It borders the electoral districts of Mount Ommaney, Yeerongpilly, Sunnybank, Algester, Bundamba, and Moggill.^[1]

The Inala electoral district was created in the 1990 redistribution as part of the one vote one value reforms under Wayne Goss, and was contested for the first time at the 1992 election.

For its entire existence, it has been held by the Australian Labor Party. Henry Palaszczuk, the seat's first member, transferred from Archerfield to Inala upon Inala's creation in 1992. He went on to become a senior minister in the Beattie government. Henry retired in 2006 and handed the seat to his daughter and current member, Annastacia Palaszczuk, who has been the Premier of Queensland since 2015.

For most of its existence, Inala has been a comfortably safe Labor seat, and on several occasions it was the safest Labor seat in the state. The only time the Labor hold on Inala was seriously threatened was in 2012, when Annastacia suffered a 14-point swing, reducing her majority to 6.2 percent. The seat reverted to form in 2015, as Palaszczuk's majority ballooned to 25 percent, the second-safest seat in the entire chamber.

Members for Inala

Member		Party	Term
	Henry Palaszczuk	Labor	1992–2006
	Annastacia Palaszczuk	Labor	2006–present

Election results

Queensland state election, 2015: Inala^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Annastacia Palaszczuk	18,915	68.46	+22.24
	Liberal National	Adam Hannant	6,442	23.32	−11.74
	Greens	Silke Volkmann	2,272	8.22	+1.01
Total formal votes			27,629	97.76	+0.76
Informal votes			632	2.24	−0.76
Turnout			28,261	89.67	−1.29
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Annastacia Palaszczuk	20,271	75.12	+18.22
	Liberal National	Adam Hannant	6,715	24.88	−18.22
	Labor hold		Swing	+18.22

References

1. "State District Map of Inala" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Queensland. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
2. 2015 State General Election - Inala - District Summary, ECQ.