Electoral district of Bulimba
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Bulimba Queensland—Legislative Assembly |
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Bulimba (2008—)
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| State | Queensland |
| Dates current | 1873–present |
| MP | Di Farmer |
| Party | Labor |
| Namesake | Bulimba |
| Electors | 34,284 (2015) |
| Area | 31 km2 (12.0 sq mi) |
| Coordinates | 27°28′S 153°5′E / 27.467°S 153.083°ECoordinates: 27°28′S 153°5′E / 27.467°S 153.083°E |
Bulimba is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
The electorate covers the inner eastern suburbs of Brisbane. It is bounded on the north and the west by the Brisbane River and, as at the 2009 election, covers the suburbs of Bulimba, Balmoral, Cannon Hill, Hawthorne, Morningside, Norman Park, Murarrie and Seven Hills. The boundaries have changed relatively little since 1923; prior to that, the boundaries extended as far east as Wynnum and as far south-east as Mount Gravatt and Cleveland.
Bulimba has existed continuously since the 1873 election, originally covering most of the outer south-east of Brisbane.
Since the 1923 redistribution, Bulimba has strongly supported Labor. The Australian Labor Party (ALP) held the seat on all but six terms and, of those, 3 were held by an independent Labor candidate and one by a member of the Queensland Labor Party.
In the 1929 election Bulimba returned Queensland's first woman Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (MLA), Irene Longman of the Country and Progressive National Party, for one term.
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