Election Results
| Queensland state election, 2012: Ashgrove | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal National | Campbell Newman | 14,932 | 51.81 | +14.55 | |
| Labor | Kate Jones | 10,549 | 36.60 | -9.11 | |
| Greens | Sandra Bayley | 2,644 | 9.17 | -3.23 | |
| Katter's Australian Party | Norman Wicks | 478 | 1.66 | +1.66 | |
| Independent | Trevor Jones | 156 | 0.54 | +0.54 | |
| One Nation | Ian Nelson | 64 | 0.22 | +0.22 | |
| Total formal votes | 28,823 | 99.22 | +0.43 | ||
| Informal votes | 227 | 0.78 | -0.43 | ||
| Turnout | 29,050 | 92.40 | +0.73 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal National | Campbell Newman | 15,537 | 55.70 | +12.80 | |
| Labor | Kate Jones | 12,358 | 44.30 | -12.80 | |
| Liberal National gain from Labor | Swing | +12.80 | |||
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