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Federal division, outer-metropolitan

# Dickson

In Queensland.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ali_France.png?width=96)**Ali France** Labor, Dickson ](https://politics.computer/mp/ali-france)

About

## About Dickson

Dickson is a federal electoral division in Queensland, in the House of Representatives, covering outer north-western Brisbane suburbs and the Samford and Dayboro areas. It is held by Ali France of the Australian Labor Party. The division is classified as outer-metropolitan.

Created

1992, named after Sir James Dickson

Area

724 square kilometres

Named after

Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland

Previous members

Michael Lavarch, Peter Dutton

Summarised by AI from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%5Fof%5FDickson), plus our own records. Sources last checked 11 November 2026.

## Who's advertising

MPs and candidates for Dickson whose Facebook pages we follow, by what they've spent.

We don't follow any candidate's page for Dickson yet, so there are no ads here. Statewide and party ads that reach Dickson are on the [spending](https://politics.computer/who) page.

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