Preceded by Liz Cunningham | Name Glenn Butcher | |
Born 15 April 1972 (age 52)
Gladstone, Queensland ( 1972-04-15 ) Occupation Mechanical fitter and machinist | ||
Political party Australian Labor Party | ||
Glenn James Butcher (born 15 April 1972) is an Australian politician. He has been the Labor member for Gladstone in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015. The seat had been held by retiring independent MP Liz Cunningham since 1995.
Butcher had previously contested the seat in 2012, losing to Cunningham. However, Gladstone has been a Labor stronghold for over a century, and most calculations of "traditional" two-party matchups (Labor vs. National/LNP) during her tenure showed it as a safe Labor seat. As evidence of Labor's strength in the seat, Labor would have held it on a comfortably safe margin of 11 percent in a traditional two-party contest. For this reason, Butcher's victory was not considered an upset; it had been widely expected for some time that the seat would revert to Labor once Cunningham retired.