Electoral district of Clayfield

Clayfield Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Map of the electoral district of Clayfield, 2017
State	Queensland
MP	Tim Nicholls
Party	Liberal National
Namesake	Clayfield
Electors	40,218 (2020)
Area	71 km2 (27.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner-metropolitan
Coordinates	27°24′S 153°6′E / 27.400°S 153.100°E / -27.400; 153.100
Electorates around Clayfield: Stafford Nudgee Moreton Bay Stafford Clayfield Lytton McConnel Bulimba Lytton

Clayfield is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. It is centred on the inner northern suburb of Clayfield in the state capital of Brisbane.

The seat was first created in 1950, and consistently returned members for the Liberal Party until its abolition in 1977. The bulk of the seat was merged into nearby Merthyr.^[1]

It was recreated in 1992 as part of the electoral reforms that ended the malapportionment of the Bjelke-Petersen era. Although it was created as a notionally Labor seat, it was located in ancestrally Liberal territory. The bulk of the seat came from the abolished Merthyr, and its last member, Liberal Santo Santoro, won the seat on a four percent swing. Santoro would go on to serve as a minister in the Borbidge government. Santoro was re-elected in 1996 and 1998, but was defeated in a shock result in 2001 by actress and Labor candidate Liddy Clark. Clark held on to the seat for two terms, but after a controversy-scarred term as a minister, was defeated by Liberal candidate Tim Nicholls in 2006.

A redistribution in 2008 made Clayfield notionally Labor by 0.2%, but the Liberal National Party achieved a swing strong enough for Nicholls to retain his seat in the 2009 election.

Nicholls was the last deputy leader of the state Liberal Party from 2007 to 2009, served as state Treasurer in the Newman government, and was leader of the LNP from 2016 to 2017.