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Federal division, outer-metropolitan

# Ryan

In Queensland.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elizabeth_Watson-Brown.png?width=96)**Elizabeth Watson-Brown** Greens, Ryan ](https://politics.computer/mp/elizabeth-watson-brown)

About

## About Ryan

Ryan is a federal electoral division in Queensland, west of Brisbane, covering parts of the City of Brisbane and the City of Moreton Bay. It is held by Elizabeth Watson-Brown of the Australian Greens, who has been the member since 2022.

Created

1949

Named after

T. J. Ryan, Premier of Queensland 1915 to 1919

Classification

Outer-metropolitan

Previous members

Michael Johnson (Liberal, elected 2001; later expelled from the party)

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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