Outgoing Broadwater MP Verity Barton pens a fond farewell days out from the election

Outgoing Broadwater MP Verity Barton has said goodbye on social media a week out from the state election.

Member for Broadwater Verity Barton. Picture: Tim Marsden

OUTGOING Broadwater MP Verity Barton has penned a handwritten note thanking the electorate for their support.

Ms Barton, who was elected in 2012, is serving her final days an MP after she was beating at the LNP preselection by former Newman Government Minister David Crisafulli.

The at times controversial MP posted the note to her Twitter account late this afternoon and said her time as MP has been “one of the greatest privileges of my life”.

Thank you, #Broadwater. It's been an honour & privilege. I'm humbled to have been considered worthy of being your servant#qldvotes #qldpol pic.twitter.com/gAsyQJ53IY

— Verity Barton MP (@Verity_BartonMP) November 18, 2017

“I am human. I didn’t always get it right; but, I honoured the commitment I made in my maiden speech — I put my heart and soul into serving our community,” she wrote.

In the letter Ms Barton also thanks her electorate staff, staff at Parliament House in Queensland, her fellow MPs and her family and friends.

“Life is a journey. It’s an adventure,” she wrote.

Verity Barton, Member for Broadwater during Question Time. Picture: Darren England.

“I don’t know what the future holes but I look forward to seeing where the wind takes me.”

Ms Barton’s five years as an MP were not without controversy.

In 2015 it was revealed Ms Barton had driven while her drivers licence was suspended for failing to pay road tolls.

When elected, Ms Barton, at 26, was the youngest woman to ever be elected to Queensland Parliament.