Electoral district of Aspley

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The division of Aspley is a Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.

It is located in the north-eastern residential suburbs of Brisbane, encompassing Aspley, Bridgeman Downs, and Carseldine, as well as parts of McDowall, West Chermside, Lawnton, and Zillmere. It straddles the local government areas of City of Brisbane and Moreton Bay.

The electorate was created at the 1959 redistribution from the former electorate of Chermside. Aspley was a safe Liberal seat until the collapse of the National-Liberal coalition in Queensland in 1983, when first-term Liberal member Beryce Nelson lost the seat to the Nationals' Brian Cahill a former local newsreader. Nelson then joined the Nationals and was subsequently preselected to contest Aspley at the 1986 election. She won and held the seat for that term and then was defeated by the Liberals' John Goss in 1989. Goss was defeated by Labor's Bonny Barry in Labor's landslide victory at the state election of 2001.

[edit] Members for Aspley

	Party	Term
Fred Campbell	Liberal Party of Australia	1960-1980
Beryce Nelson	Liberal Party of Australia	1980-1983
Brian Cahill	National Party of Australia	1983-1986
Beryce Nelson	National Party of Australia	1986-1989
John Goss	Liberal Party of Australia	1989-2001
Bonny Barry	Australian Labor Party	2001-present