Electoral district of Cooroora

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Cooroora
QueenslandLegislative Assembly
State Queensland
Created1912
Abolished1992
Namesake Mount Cooroora

Cooroora was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1992. [1]

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It was based mainly on the area of the district of Wide Bay and named after Mount Cooroora, near the town of Pomona.

Cooroora was mainly a safe Country/National seat but was one of the many seats that Labor won in the 1989 election landslide.

It was abolished in the 1991 redistribution under the Goss government, and its territory distributed between the new districts of Noosa and Maroochydore.

Members for Cooroora

MemberPartyTerm
Harry Walker Liberal 1912–1918
National 1918–1920
Country 1920–1925
CPNP 1925–1936
Country 1936–1947
David Low Country 1947–1974
Gordon Simpson National 1974–1989
Ray Barber Labor 1989–1992

Election results

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References

  1. "Representatives of Queensland State Electorates 1860-2017" (PDF). Queensland Parliamentary Record 2012-2017: The 55th Parliament. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.