predecessor assembly party birth_date term_start article_title constituency_am name
liz cunningham queensland legislative australian labor party 15 april 1972 31 january 2015 glenn butcher -lrb- politician -rrb-
 gladstone glenn butcher
glenn butcher -lrb- politician -rrb-

glenn james butcher -lrb- born 15 april 1972 -rrb- is an australian politician .
he has been the labor member for gladstone in the queensland legislative assembly since 2015 .
the seat had been held by retiring independent mp liz cunningham since 1995 .
butcher had previously attempted to win the seat in 2012 , losing to cunningham .
however , gladstone has been a labor stronghold for over a century , and it was widely expected that the seat would revert to labor once cunningham retired .
