The district of Caloundra is a Queensland 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...

 electoral district on the Sunshine Coast

Sunshine Coast, Queensland

The Sunshine Coast is an urban area in South East Queensland, north of the state capital of Brisbane on the Pacific Ocean coastline. Although it does not have a central business district, by population it ranks as the 10th largest metropolis in Australia and the third largest in...

 in the Australia

Australia

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n state of Queensland

Queensland

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. The electorate is centred on the city of Caloundra and stretches north to Wurtulla

Wurtulla, Queensland

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, south to Pelican Waters

Pelican Waters, Queensland

Pelican Waters is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, located within the Caloundra urban centre southwest of Caloundra CBD....

 and west to the Bruce Highway

Bruce Highway

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.

The seat is currently held by Mark McArdle

Mark McArdle

Mark Francis McArdle is an Australian politician and the Shadow Minister for Health. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2004, representing the electorate of Caloundra....

, deputy leader of the Liberal National Party since July 2008 and prior to that state Liberal leader from November 2007 to July 2008. McArdle succeeded former Liberal leader Joan Sheldon

Joan Sheldon

Joan Mary Sheldon is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2004, representing the electorates of Landsborough and then Caloundra...

 upon her retirement in 2004.

Members for Caloundra

Member		Party	Term
	Joan Sheldon Joan Sheldon Joan Mary Sheldon is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1990 to 2004, representing the electorates of Landsborough and then Caloundra...	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...	1992–2004
	Mark McArdle Mark McArdle Mark Francis McArdle is an Australian politician and the Shadow Minister for Health. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2004, representing the electorate of Caloundra....	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...	2004–2008
		Liberal National	2008–present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)