Outer suburbs of the city are included in the neighbouring electorates of Mirani and Whitsunday.Labor's dominance in the seat began in 1915 when it was won by William Forgan Smith, who served as Premier of Queensland from 1932 to 1942.Graham was succeeded by Ed Casey, who lost Labor preselection after only one term in 1972.He was succeeded upon his retirement by Tim Mulherin, who was comfortably elected six more times, winning with more than 60% of the vote in 2006.At the 2012 election it became the most marginal ALP seat with Mulherin winning 50.5% of the two-party preferred vote.