Queensland's electoral's map is set for its biggest shakeup in 30 years thanks to a massive redistribution that touches almost every seat in state parliament.
The Queensland Redistribution Commission on Friday officially revealed its draft redistribution of the state's electorates, creating four new seats to take the total number to 93, as well as significantly altering or renaming dozens of others.
The four new electorates are all in southeast Queensland - Bonney on the Gold Coast, Ninderry on the Sunshine Coast, Bancroft north of Brisbane and Jordan between Brisbane and Ipswich.
A key change is the merger of inner city Brisbane seats Ashgrove, Mt Coo-tha and Indooroopilly into two seats Cooper and Maiwar, a move which threatens rising Labor ministers Kate Jones and Steven Miles and shadow treasurer Scott Emerson.
Katter Party MP Shane Knuth's seat of Dalrymple will also be abolished and parts of it hived off to three separate seats.
One chunk would go into the renamed electorate of Traeger, which also takes in the existing seat of Mount Isa held by Mr Knuth's Katter Party colleague Robbie Katter.
Just two seats - Townsville and Southern Downs - remain untouched by the sweeping changes as both were within required population quotas.
The public now has 30 days to comment or make suggestions about the draft boundaries before they are put in place permanently. Two sitting MPs have already flagged objections - Mr Knuth in the now-defunct seat of Dalrymple and the LNP's member for Hinchinbrook Andrew Cripps.
Queensland Boundaries Commission chairman Hugh Botting said they had tried to use local government areas and physical landmarks to define the new boundaries, especially in rural areas.
"At all times we have tried to ensure that the people of Queensland will have a fair say at the ballot box, whilst creating sustainable boundaries in a growing state," Mr Botting told reporters on Friday.
"We've had to introduce four new electorates, find a place for them, and that inevitably involves significant moving of the boundaries."
Queensland electoral commissioner Walter van der Merwe said residents would be notified if they were now in a new electorate with all draft boundaries and submission forms available on the electoral commission's website.
"It is a very significant redistribution, Queensland hasn't seen anything like this in 30-odd years," Mr van der Merwe said.
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