Electoral district of Gympie
State electoral district of Queensland, Australia
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Gympie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland The electorate is centred on the city of Gympie and stretches north to Rainbow Beach and as far south to Pomona.[1]
| Gympie Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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 Map of the electoral district of Gympie, 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1873–1950; 1960–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Tony Perrett | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal National | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Gympie | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 39,141 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 4,628 km2 (1,786.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Provincial | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 26°12′S 152°47′E | ||||||||||||||
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The seat is currently held by Tony Perrett of the Liberal National Party.
The district's most famous former member is Andrew Fisher, who later became Prime Minister of Australia.
Members for Gympie
| Single member electorate (1873–1888) | |||
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| Member | Party | Term | |
| Robert Lord | Unaligned | 1873–1877 | |
| James Kidgell | Unaligned | 1877–1878 | |
| John Hamilton | McIlwraith conservative | 1878–1883 | |
| William Smyth | Unaligned | 1883–1888 | |
| Dual member electorate (1888–1912) | |||||||
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| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| William Smyth | Unaligned | 1888–1899 | Matthew Mellor | Unaligned | 1888–1893 | ||
| Andrew Fisher | Labour | 1893–1896 | |||||
| Jacob Stumm | Ministerialist | 1896–1899 | |||||
| George Ryland | Labour | 1899–1912 | Andrew Fisher | Labour | 1899–1901 | ||
| Daniel Mulcahy | Labour | 1901–1912 | |||||
| Single member electorate (1912–1950) | |||
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| Member | Party | Term | |
| George Mackay | Ministerialist | 1912–1915 | |
| Thomas Dunstan | Labor | 1915–1929 | |
| Vivian Tozer | Country and Progressive National | 1929–1935 | |
| Thomas Dunstan | Labor | 1935–1950 | |
| Single member electorate (1960–present) | |||
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| Member | Party | Term | |
| Max Hodges | Country | 1960–1974 | |
| National | 1974–1979 | ||
| Len Stephan | National | 1979–2001 | |
| Elisa Roberts | One Nation | 2001–2002 | |
| Independent | 2002–2006 | ||
| David Gibson | National | 2006–2008 | |
| Liberal National | 2008–2015 | ||
| Tony Perrett | Liberal National | 2015–present | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal National | Tony Perrett | 17,530 | 46.43 | +4.01 | |
| Labor | Lachlan Anderson | 8,849 | 23.44 | −5.20 | |
| One Nation | Katy McCallum | 8,347 | 22.11 | +9.53 | |
| Greens | Emma Buhse | 3,029 | 8.02 | +1.81 | |
| Total formal votes | 37,755 | 95.79 | +0.60 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,661 | 4.21 | −0.60 | ||
| Turnout | 39,416 | 89.06 | +0.03 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal National | Tony Perrett | 24,448 | 64.75 | +6.26 | |
| Labor | Lachlan Anderson | 13,307 | 35.25 | −6.26 | |
| Liberal National hold | Swing | +6.26 | |||
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