It has been billed as the biggest shake-up of Queensland's electorate map in decades.
The Queensland Redistribution Council proposes increasing the number of seats from 89 to 93, while abolishing the rural seat held by Katter's Australian Party MP Shane Knuth and the urban electorate held by LNP frontbencher Scott Emerson..
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Queensland's new electoral boundaries
The seats of Indooroopilly and Dalrymple are abolished as Queensland is remapped to make way for four new seats. Nine News
Scores of electorates will have new boundaries, while a dozen will have new names.
New Seats: 6
- Bonney (Gold Coast)
- Macalister (Between Brisbane and the Gold Coast)
- Jordan (Ipswich)
- Bancroft (Between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast)
- Ninderry (Sunshine Coast)
- Hill (North Queensland)
Abolished Seats: 2
Indooroopilly: A seat in Brisbane's inner-western suburbs, covering 27 square kilometres.
Dalrymple: Charters Towers, about 110 km south-west of Townsville, is the largest town in this inland seat which covers more than 100,000 square kilometres,
Unchanged Seats: 2
- Southern Downs
- Townsville
Existing seats with new names: 13
- Albert changed to Theodore
- Beaudesert changed to Scenic Rim
- Cleveland changed to Oodgeroo
- Yeerongpilly changed to Miller
- Sunnybank changed to Toohey
- Mount Coot-tha changed to Maiwar
- Ashgrove changed to Cooper
- Brisbane Central changed to McConnel
- Kallangur changed to Kurwongbah
- Glass House changed to Tibrogargan
- Pine Rivers changed to D'Aguilar
- Burdekin changed to McMaster
- Mount Isa changed to Traeger
Seats with boundary changes: full list
Currumbin; Burleigh; Mermaid Beach; Surfers Paradise; Southport; Broadwater; Mudgeeraba; Gaven; Theodore (Albert); Coomera; Scenic Rim (Beaudesert); Logan; Woodridge; Waterford; Springwood; Redlands; Oodgeroo (Cleveland); Capalaba; Lytton; Chatsworth; Bulimba; South Brisbane; Miller (Yeerongpilly); Greenslopes; Mansfield; Toohey (Sunnybank); Stretton; Algester; Inala; Mount Ommaney; Bundamba; Ipswich; Ipswich West; Lockyer; Condamine; Toowoomba North; Toowoomba South; Moggill; Maiwar (Mount Coot-tha); Cooper (Ashgrove); McConnel (Brisbane Central); Stafford; Clayfield; Nudgee; Ferny Grove; Everton; Aspley; Sandgate; D'Aguilar (Pine Rivers); Kurwongbah (Kallangur); Murrumba; Redcliffe; Morayfield; Pumicestone; Tibrogargan (Glass House); Caloundra; Kawana; Buderim; Maroochydore; Nicklin; Noosa; Gympie; Maryborough; Hervey Bay; Bundaberg; Burnett; Nanango; Callide; Gladstone; Keppel; Rockhampton; Mirani; Mackay; Whitsunday; McMaster (Burdekin); Mundingburra; Thuringowa; Hinchinbrook; Mulgrave; Cairns; Barron River; Cook; Traeger (Mount Isa); Gregory; Warrego.
Where the commission has recommended a name change, the electorate's existing name is in brackets.