Qld election 2020: Les Walker preselected by Labor in Mundingburra
A new but familiar candidate has been overwhelmingly backed to run for Labor in an outgoing minister’s marginal electorate.
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Townsville councillor Les Walker has won Labor preselection in the ultra-marginal seat of Mundingburra.
Cr Walker, who hails from the party’s Right Faction, went up against Simon Mitchell from the Left.
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It is understood there was overwhelming support for Mr Walker on the ground.
It comes after government minister Coralee O’Rourke, who has held the Townsville seat since 2015, announced she was quitting politics earlier this month.
Her announcement came after The Courier-Mail revealed she was reconsidering contesting her seat.
Ms O’Rourke has since revealed she wants to focus on her health.
Mr Walker will go up against a raft of candidates including the LNP’s Glenn Doyle, One Nation candidate Ian Bowron, Katter’s Australian Party’s Alannah Tomlinson and Jenny Brown from the Greens.
Labor held Mundingburra by a paper-thin margin of 1.1 per cent at the 2017 election.
