With nominations for the 2024 Queensland Election closing at noon yesterday, candidates have begun hitting the campaign trail in the Condamine electorate.

Barring any last minute nominations, the candidates are:

• Pat Weir (LNP)
• Ben Whibley-Faulkner (Labor)
• Ellisa Parker (Greens)
• Alan Hughes (Family First Party)

At the last election in 2020, Condamine saw candidates from the LNP, Labor, Greens, One Nation and United Australia parties.

Pre-polling

Pre-polling centres will be open from 8am to 6pm from Monday, 14 October to Friday, 18 October and from Monday, 21 October to Friday, 25 October.

Election Day is Saturday, 26 October.

Unlike the local government elections earlier this year, there is no requirement to cast your vote in the electorate in which you live.

Pre-polling will be available at:

• Pittsworth Early Voting Centre: St. Andrew’s Anglican Church Hall, 18 Murray Street (cnr 30 Hume Street), Pittsworth
• Returning Officer Condamine: 40 Sowden Street, Drayton
• Returning Officer Toowoomba South & North: 102-104 Hill Street, Newtown
• Newtown Early Voting Centre: 485-487 Tor Street, Newtown
• South Toowoomba Early Voting Centre: 2 Lawrence Street, South Toowoomba

On election day, there will be polling booths in Cambooya, Wyreema, Westbrook (Bunker’s Hill), East Greenmount, Nobby, Pilton, Drayton, Darling Heights and Middle Ridge.

This article appeared in  On Our Selection News, 10 October 2024.