Fisher

GRAY, John - ALP
HILL, Stuart - FFP
MUSTON, Robert - GRN
SAVAGE, Kevin - HAN
* SLIPPER, Peter - LP WINNER
WILMOTT, Craig - DEM

* incumbent

Current Results
Past Results

About Fisher

A compact and predominantly urban electorate on the Sunshine Coast, covering 787 sq.km including Maroochydore, Alexandra Headlands, Mooloolaba, Buderim and Caloundra, with a small rural hinterland stretching as far as Maleny in the hills overlooking the coast.

Seat Background

Created in 1949 and named after Andrew Fisher, Labor Prime Minister 1908-09, 1910-13 and 1914-15. Originally a rural seat, it had been held by the Country/National Party for most of its history through the Adermann family, Charles (1949-72) and son Evan (1972-84). Shifting into the state's urban south-east over the decades, Fisher was won for Labor by Michael Lavarch on the tail of the abortive Joh for Canberra campaign in 1987. When Lavarch shifted to the new seat of Dickson in 1993, the MP he defeated in 1987, Peter Slipper, won the seat, though in the meantime he had switched from the National to the Liberal Party.

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