Electoral district of Cooroora

Cooroora Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Electorate map, 1921
State	Queensland
Created	1912
Abolished	1992
Namesake	Mount Cooroora

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

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

Member		Party	Term
	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

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Cooroora

See also

• Electoral districts of Queensland
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly by year
• Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly by name

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.