| 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′S152°47′E / 26.200°S 152.783°E /-26.200; 152.783 | ||||||||||||||
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Gympie is anelectoral district of theLegislative Assembly in the Australian state ofQueensland The electorate is centred on the city ofGympie and stretches north toRainbow Beach and as far south toPomona.[1]
The seat is currently held byTony Perrett of theLiberal National Party.
The district's most famous former member isAndrew Fisher, who later becamePrime Minister of Australia.
| 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 | |
| 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 Nationalhold | Swing | +6.26 | |||
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