Bowen was an electoral district

Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts

This is a list of current and former electoral divisions for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the state legislature for Queensland, Australia.-Districts in Far North Queensland:*Barron River*Cairns*Cook*Mulgrave*Dalrymple...

 of the Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

 in the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n state of Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 from 1873 to 1950 and at various times until 1992.

Bowen is the only state or federal electorate in Australia to ever return a Communist member, Fred Paterson

Fred Paterson

Frederick Woolnough Paterson was an Australian politician, activist, unionist and lawyer. He was the only member of a Communist Party ever to be elected to a parliament anywhere in the Commonwealth of Australia....

, who served as member for Bowen from the 1944 election

Queensland state election, 1944

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 15 April 1944 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.The election was the first that Labor had contested under Premier Frank Cooper, who had been in office for 19 months by the time of the poll.The election resulted...

 until the 1950 election

Queensland state election, 1950

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 29 April 1950 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its seventh continuous term in office since the 1932 election; it would be Premier Ned Hanlon second election.The Assembly had...

.

During the First McIlwraith Ministry

First McIlwraith Ministry

The First McIlwraith Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Premier Thomas McIlwraith. It succeeded the Douglas Ministry on 21 January 1879 after the latter lost a vote of no confidence in Parliament after the 1878 election...

, the seat of Bowen was occupied by three Attorneys-General

Attorney-General of Queensland

The Attorney-General of Queensland is a ministry of the Government of Queensland with responsibility for the state's legal and justice system.The current Attorney-General of Queensland is Paul Lucas.-List of Attorneys-General of Queensland:-References:...

. Upon Henry Beor's death, Pope Alexander Cooper

Pope Alexander Cooper

Sir Pope Alexander Cooper KCMG was an attorney-general and a chief judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia.-Early life:...

, who was not at that time in Parliament, was appointed Attorney-General and contested and won the resulting by-election. When he resigned, Charles Chubb entered parliament in the same manner. From 1963 until 1971, a later member, Peter Delamothe, also served as Attorney-General.

Today, the electoral districts of Whitsunday

Electoral district of Whitsunday

The district of Whitsunday is an electoral division in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Queensland, Australia.It encompasses the Whitsunday Islands as well as mainland centres from Bowen to the northern suburbs of Mackay, Queensland, including the tourist resort of Airlie Beach and the sugar...

 and Burdekin

Electoral district of Burdekin

Burdekin is an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the state of Queensland, Australia. Centred on the Ayr–Home Hill region, the electorate also includes some of Townsville's southern suburbs as well as the coal-mining town of Collinsville...

 comprise parts of the former Electoral district of Bowen.

Members

First incarnation (1873-1950)
Member		Party	Term
	Thomas Henry FitzGerald Thomas Henry FitzGerald Thomas Henry FitzGerald was a pioneer in sugar cane farming in the early days of the colony of Queensland, Australia. He was a politician, first in New Zealand, then in Queensland. His descendants went on to become notable names in Queensland politics, business and law...		1873–1875
	Francis Amhurst		1875–1877
	Henry Beor	Conservative	1877–1880
	Pope Alexander Cooper Pope Alexander Cooper Sir Pope Alexander Cooper KCMG was an attorney-general and a chief judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia.-Early life:...	Conservative	1881–1883
	Charles Chubb	Conservative	1883–1888
	Robert Smith	Conservative	1888–1890
		Ministerial	1890–1902
	Francis Kenna Francis Kenna William Francis Kenna , known as Francis Kenna, was an Australian poet, journalist, and Labor Member of the Legislative Assembly in Queensland...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1902–1907
		Kidston	1907–1909
	Myles Ferricks Myles Ferricks Myles Aloysius Ferricks was an Australian politician. Born in Maryborough, Queensland, he was educated there at Christian Brothers School before becoming a bush worker, teacher and journalist, and editor of the Bowen Independent. In 1909, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1909–1912
	Edward Caine	Ministerialist	1912–1915
	Charles Collins	Labor	1915–1936
	Ernest Riordan	Labor	1936–1944
	Fred Paterson Fred Paterson Frederick Woolnough Paterson was an Australian politician, activist, unionist and lawyer. He was the only member of a Communist Party ever to be elected to a parliament anywhere in the Commonwealth of Australia....	Communist Communist Party of Australia The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991; it was succeeded by the Socialist Party of Australia, which then renamed itself, becoming the current Communist Party of Australia. The CPA achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted...	1944–1950
Later incarnations
	Peter Delamothe	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1960–1971
	Ken Smyth	Labor	1986–1992