| Election Name: | 2021 Stretton state by-election |
| Country: | Queensland |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Turnout: | 77.4% 10.4 |
| Previous Election: | 2020 Queensland state election |
| Previous Year: | 2020 |
| Election Date: | 24 July 2021 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Queensland state election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Registered: | 33,961 |
| Seats For Election: | The district of Stretton in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland |
| Candidate1: | James Martin |
| Party1: | Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) |
| Popular Vote1: | 14,314 |
| Percentage1: | 56.4% |
| Swing1: | 0.2 |
| Candidate2: | Jim Bellos |
| Party2: | Liberal National Party of Queensland |
| Popular Vote2: | 8,322 |
| Percentage2: | 32.8% |
| Swing2: | 2.6 |
| 1Blank: | 2PP |
| 1Data1: | 63.9% |
| 1Data2: | 36.1% |
| 2Blank: | 2PP swing |
| 2Data1: | 0.9 |
| 2Data2: | 0.9 |
| MP | |
| Before Election: | Duncan Pegg |
| Before Party: | Labor |
| After Election: | James Martin |
| After Party: | Labor |
A by-election was held on 24 July 2021 for the Queensland Legislative Assembly seat of Stretton following the death of Duncan Pegg.
See also: Electoral results for the district of Stretton. Duncan Pegg was first elected at the 2015 election defeating incumbent Freya Ostapovitch on a swing of over 14%. Ostapovitch had won the previously safe seat for Labor during the Liberal National Party of Queensland landslide of the 2012 election. In subsequent elections, Pegg would increase the margin of Stretton back into safe territory for Labor and saw a nearly 5% swing to himself in the 2020 election. On 22 April 2021, Pegg announced that he would be resigning from his seat to focus on his health revealing that he had been diagnosed with cancer in 2019 and that it was a terminal illness.[1] Pegg's death was announced by his electorate office on 10 June 2021.[2]
| Election | 2020 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59.50% | 40.45% | 54.98% | 59.90% | 64.82% | ||||||||
| width=1pt | 40.50% | 59.55% | 45.02% | 40.10% | 35.18% | |||||||
| Swing | +5.0 | +19.03 | +14.54 | +4.6 | +4.93 | |||||||
| Government | ALP | LNP | ALP | ALP | ALP | |||||||
| Date[3] | Event | |
|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2021 | Issue of the writ | |
| 5 July 2021 | Close of electoral rolls | |
| 7 July 2021 | Close of nominations | |
| 12 July 2021 | Early voting begins | |
| 24 July 2021 | Polling day |
| Candidates (in ballot paper order)[4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greens | Andrea Wildin | Health worker and advocate | |||
| James Martin | Electorate officer for Stretton[5] | ||||
| Jim Bellos OAM APM | Queensland Police Service sergeant and liaison officer[6] | ||||
| Informed Medical Options | Jasmine Melhop | Alternative medicine practitioner[7] | |||
| Animal Justice | Suzanne Clarke | Animal and environmental advocate | |||