Petrie Federal Election 2025 Results

First created when the Parliament was expanded in 1949, the electorate of Petrie is named after Andrew Petrie, the first free settler in the then Moreton Bay penal colony.

Petrie was won by the party that formed government at every election from 1987 until the sequence was broken with the election of the Albanese government in 2022. Labor's Gary Johns gained the seat in 1987, one of several Queensland seats gained by Labor on the back of the abortive 'Joh for Canberra' campaign by the National Party. Johns retained the seat until swept away by a 10% swing on the defeat of the Keating government in 1996.

The Liberal Party's Teresa Gambaro held Petrie from 1996 until defeated by Labor's Yvette D'Ath on the election of the Rudd government in 2007. Gambaro returned to Parliament representing the inner-city seat of Brisbane from 2010 to 2016.

D'Ath could not withstand the anti-Labor swing in 2013 as the LNP's Luke Howarth continued the Petrie tradition of electing a member to serve on the government benches. Howarth was re-elected in 2016 and 2019 and withstood a swing back to Labor in 2022. On re-election he became the first member for Petrie to sit on the opposition benches in 25 years.

Former member D'Ath was later elected to the Queensland Parliament at the February 2014 Redcliffe by-election and went on to serve as Queensland Attorney General and later Health Minister before retiring at the 2024 state election.

(Victories by a party of government are indicated by thick coloured underlining.)

21 of the 35 polling places in the electorate recorded LNP majorities in 2022, results raging from 42.0% at Taigum State School on the southern boundary of the electorate, to 62.6% further west at The Church of the Resurrection in Bridgman Downs.


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LNP two-party preferred results in Petrie have tracked closely to the Coalition's overall vote in Queensland, with the exception of the period 2007-2013 when Yvette D'Ath was the Labor candidate.

Results 1983-2019