The district of Gympie is 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

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 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 Gympie

Gympie

Gympie may refer to:* Gympie, a city in Queensland, Australia** Gympie Airport** Electoral district of Gympie** Gympie Region, its local government authority* Gympie Gympie , a stinging plant...

 and stretches north to Rainbow Beach

Rainbow Beach, Queensland

Rainbow Beach is a coastal town in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, east of Gympie. At the 2006 census, Rainbow Beach had a population of 999...

 and as far south to Pomona

Pomona, Queensland

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The seat is currently held by David Gibson

David Gibson (Australian politician)

David Francis Gibson is an Australian politician. Born in Fremantle, Western Australia, he graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon before moving to Queensland, where he became manager of The Gympie Times....

 of the Liberal National Party. Gibson defeated sitting member Elisa Roberts

Elisa Roberts

Elisa Mary Roberts is a former Australian politician. Born in Sydney, she served with the Australian Defence Force at Victoria Barracks in Paddington from 1989 to 1993, and received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales in 1996...

 at the 2006 state election.

The district's most famous former member is Andrew Fisher

Andrew Fisher

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, who later became Prime Minister of Australia

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Members for Gympie

Single member electorate (1873–1888)
Member		Party	Term
	Robert Lord	Unaligned	1873–1877
	James Kidgell	Unaligned	1877–1878
	John Hamilton John Hamilton (Australian politician) John Hamilton , also known as John Dinwoodie, was an Australian politician.He was born in Melbourne to saddler John Dinwoodie and Janet, née McFarlane. He was sent to a private tutor in England before travelling to Rockhampton with the intention to become a pastoralist...	McIlwraith conservative	1878–1883
	William Smyth	Unaligned	1883–1888

Dual member electorate (1888–1912)

Member

Party

Term

William Smyth

Unaligned

1888–1899

Matthew Mellor Matthew Mellor Matthew Mellor was the first mayor of Gympie, Queensland. He served first from 1880–1881 and then again in 1897.-References:...

Unaligned

1888–1893

Andrew Fisher Andrew Fisher Andrew Fisher was an Australian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister on three separate occasions. Fisher's 1910-13 Labor ministry completed a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist Alfred Deakin, the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation...

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...

1893–1896

Jacob Stumm Jacob Stumm Jacob Stumm was an Australian politician. Born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at state schools in Toowoomba before becoming a Hansard reporter, a journalist and the proprietor of the Gympie Times. He also invested in dairying and goldmining...

Ministerialist

1896–1899

George Ryland

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...

1899–1912

Andrew Fisher

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...

1899–1901

Daniel Mulcahy

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...

1901–1912

Single member electorate (1912–1950)
Member		Party	Term
	George Mackay George Mackay (Australian politician) George Hugh Alexander Mackay was an Australian politician and Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.-Early life:...	Ministerialist	1912–1915
	Thomas Dunstan	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...	1915–1929
	Vivian Tozer	Country and Progressive National Country and Progressive National Party The Country and Progressive National Party was a short-lived conservative political party in the Australian state of Queensland.-History:It was created in 1925 as the result of a merger between the state's two conservative parties, the United Party and the Country Party, in an attempt to end...	1929–1935
	Thomas Dunstan	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...	1935–1950

Single member electorate (1960–present)
Member		Party	Term
	Max Hodges	Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1960–1975
		National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1975–1979
	Len Stephan Len Stephan Leonard William Stephan is an Australian politician. He was a National Party of Australia member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1979 to 2001, representing the electorate of Gympie....	National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1979–2001
	Elisa Roberts Elisa Roberts Elisa Mary Roberts is a former Australian politician. Born in Sydney, she served with the Australian Defence Force at Victoria Barracks in Paddington from 1989 to 1993, and received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales in 1996...	One Nation	2001–2002
		Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	2002–2006
	David Gibson David Gibson (Australian politician) David Francis Gibson is an Australian politician. Born in Fremantle, Western Australia, he graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon before moving to Queensland, where he became manager of The Gympie Times....	National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	2006–2008
		Liberal National	2008–present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)