Electoral district of Dalrymple

Dalrymple
Queensland—Legislative Assembly
Dalrymple (2008-2017)
StateQueensland
Dates current2009–2017
MPSeveral
Party
NamesakeDalrymple National Park
Electors30,197 (2015)
Area105,337 km2 (40,670.8 sq mi)
Coordinates19°52′S 146°17′E / 19.867°S 146.283°E / -19.867; 146.283

Dalrymple was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 2009 to 2017.[1]

Geography

Based in inland northern Queensland, Dalrymple was a north–south elongated electorate, running from the Atherton Tableland west of Cairns at its northern end, down to areas west of Mackay at its southern end. It was based on Charters Towers, and also included Moranbah, Atherton and Herberton.[2]

History

Dalrymple was first created for the 2009 election from parts of the abolished electorates of Charters Towers and Tablelands.[3] Originally proposed by the Electoral Commission of Queensland to be named Macrossan, the name Dalrymple was adopted after further review. The district's first contest pitted two incumbent MPs against each other, with sitting Charters Towers MP Shane Knuth of the Liberal National Party defeating sitting Tablelands MP Rosa Lee Long, of One Nation.

Knuth defected to Katter's Australian Party in 2011. He was handily re-elected in the face of the massive landslide to the LNP at the 2012 state election, besting his replacement as LNP candidate by an almost 2-to-1 two-party-preferred margin, and actually won enough primary votes to retain the seat outright. He was re-elected almost as easily in 2015.

Dalrymple was abolished in the 2017 electoral redistribution. Its more urbanised central section, including Charters Towers, became part of the new electorate of Traeger, its northern section became part of the new electorate of Hill, and its southern section became part of Burdekin.[4] Knuth transferred to Hill.

Members for Dalrymple

Image Member Party Term Notes
  Shane Knuth Liberal National 21 March 2009 –
30 October 2011 		Resigned from the LNP. Moved to electoral district of Hill
  Katter's Australian 30 October 2011 –
25 November 2017

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Dalrymple

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.
  2. ^ Green, Antony. "Dalrymple - 2009 Queensland Election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 21 March 2009.
  3. ^ "2008 Queensland State Redistribution: Dalrymple". Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived from the original on 29 June 2009.
  4. ^ Queensland Redistribution Commission (26 May 2017). "Determination of Queensland's Legislative Assembly Electoral Districts" (PDF). Queensland Government Gazette. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.