The Queensland Redistribution Commission officially released its proposal for boundary changes and four additional seats on Friday morning - after a confidential map was leaked on Thursday.

Labor member for Mount Coot-tha Steven Miles' electorate will disappear, with Mr Emerson's electorate of Indooroopilly being renamed Maiwar and adding in the suburbs of Mount Coot-tha, Toowong, Bardon and Auchenflower.

The redefined electorate will lose Chelmer, Graceville, Sherwood, Tennyson and Corinda to the electorate of Miller (previously known as the electorate of Yeerongpilly, held by Labor's Mark Bailey).

After ambling down the student heartland of "The Ville" in St Lucia on a Friday afternoon with Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls, stopping to say hello to employees at various shops, Mr Emerson said he did not know who would be running against him.

"Obviously I'm in it to win it, but I'm not taking anything for granted," Mr Emerson said, when asked if he thought he could win the seat of Maiwar, which he pronounced "May-wah".

"I'll be contesting Maiwar, this is where I live, where I raised my family."

Maiwar is the traditional Indigenous name for the Brisbane River.

Labor held the seat of Indooroopilly for three elections before Mr Emerson won it in 2009.

Mr Emerson said his first house with his wife Robbie was at Auchenflower and his children went to schools in the area.

Dr Miles said he would be running at the next state election, regardless of what the maps meant for him, but did not confirm which seat he would contest.

"I haven't yet had the chance to discuss... these outcomes properly with my wife and my family.

"Obviously we're established in the community that I currently represent."

The electorates close to Maiwar - Ashgrove (now Cooper) and Brisbane Central (now McConnel) - are already held by Labor ministers Kate Jones and Grace Grace.

Mr Nicholls would not be drawn on whether the redistribution would benefit the LNP or Labor more across Queensland.

"The changes are what they are," he said.

"A lot of people will make claims about what the changes mean."

Mr Nicholls also did not say how many LNP MPs he thought would need to change seats but said there was a phone hook-up yesterday.

"We will look at the maps over the next couple of days and we'll make some decisions in consultation," he said.

Mr Nicholls also did not answer whether his own seat of Clayfield had become more marginal.

The Greens will also need to decide what to do with their preselected candidates, including Michael Berkman in the old seat of Mount Coot-tha.

Queensland Greens convenor Andrew Bartlett said it was too early to comment on the plan for Mr Berkman, with the boundaries still in the proposal stage, but they would need to re-examine preselection in a small number of seats.

The Greens have also already preselected a candidate, yet to be announced, in the old seat of Ashgrove, which will be removed.

"It's less than ideal but that's what redistributions do and this one is a bigger and more disruptive one than usual because of the extra seats," he said.

Mr Bartlett said he believed the new boundaries would strengthen their position in South Brisbane and McConnel.

Queensland University of Technology politics expert Clive Bean said Maiwar would combine solid LNP territory in Indooroopilly and Labor/Green heartland in Mount Coot-tha.

"It's not unusual to have urban seats in the metropolitan area that are like that, that have a good core of Liberal and a good core of Labor areas, so it's not like that's something new," Professor Bean said.

"But, my guess – and obviously it's very early days and there'll be a lot of number crunching to go in the future and this is just a draft and could change – but my view is that seat will probably play more into the hands of the LNP and, therefore, it could be Labor on the outer there.

"It's really more Indooroopilly than it is Mount Coot-tha."

The next state election is due by May 2018 but Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has repeatedly said it is due about this time next year.

Ms Palaszczuk has committed to fighting the next election on the new boundaries of 93 seats, rather than the old 89.

Professor Bean said voters would punish Ms Palaszczuk if she went to the polls before the new boundaries came into effect.

"To go in that period would seem so cynical to the electorate and it would give so much fodder to all the collective opposition parties," he said.

"For a government that's not in a very strong position anyway, I think that would significantly weaken it."

- with Cameron Atfield