DIVISION OF BOWMAN

The 'Division of Bowman' is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created in 1949 and is named for David Bowman, an early leader of the Australian Labor Party, in Queensland. The seat is located in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, and currently includes the suburbs of Capalaba, Cleveland, Redland Bay, Birkdale, Thorneside, Alexandra Hills, Thornlands, Mt Cotton, Cornubia, Ormiston, Wellington Point and Victoria Point. The division also incorporates various islands of Moreton Bay including Coochiemudlo the inhabited southern Bay Islands (Russell, Karragarra, Macleay and Lamb)as well as the big tourist destination of North Stradbroke.
Bowman has traditionally been a highly marginal seat, regularly changing hands between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party. However, in the 2004 Federal Election, an energetic campaign by Dr Andrew Laming, and an electoral redistribution (due to the creation of the new Division of Bonner), saw Bowman returned to the Liberal Party by a significant margin (59.12% two party preferred) and the division is now considered by pollsters such as Antony Green to be a fairly safe Liberal seat.

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Statistics

Bowman is 573 km² in area and is defined as outer metropolitan. At the last election there were 86,262 enrolled voters. It is generally a residential electorate with some crops, poultry, various light industries and tourism.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Malcolm McColm	Liberal	1949—1961
	Jack Comber	Labor	1961—1963
	Wylie Gibbs	Liberal	1963—1969
	Leonard Keogh	Labor	1969—1975
	David Jull	Liberal	1975—1983
	Leonard Keogh	Labor	1983—1987
	Con Sciacca	Labor	1987—1996
	Andrea West	Liberal	1996—1998
	Con Sciacca	Labor	1998—2004
	Andrew Laming	Liberal	2004—present

Election results