Electoral district of Charters Towers
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Charters Towers was an
electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It has had three incarnations, most recently being created as part of a redistribution in 1991 and lasting until 2008.[1]
The latest incarnation of Charters Towers was created in 1992, largely as a replacement for the abolished
Labor
during its 2001 landslide, but reverted to its conservative ways in 2004.
In 2008, Charters Towers was abolished—with effect at the 2009 state election—as a result of a redistribution undertaken by the Electoral Commission of Queensland. Its former territory and voters were split between the districts of Burdekin, Gregory, Mount Isa and the new seat of Dalrymple. The seat's last member, Shane Knuth, transferred to Dalrymple.
An earlier district called Charters Towers based in the same region existed from 1888 to 1960—firstly as a dual member electorate, and from 1912 as a single member electorate. Its most notable representative was
socialist
government.
Members for Charters Towers
| First incarnation (1888–1912, 2 members) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| Robert Sayers | Unaligned | 1888–1893 | Arthur Rutledge | Ministerialist | 1888–1893 | ||
| Anderson Dawson | Labour
|
1893–1901 | John Dunsford | Labour
|
1893–1905 | ||
| John Burrows | Labour
|
1901–1907 | |||||
| William Paull | Opposition | 1905–1908 | |||||
| Joe Millican | Opposition | 1907–1908 | |||||
| Vernon Winstanley | Labour
|
1908–1912 | John Mullan | Labour
|
1908–1912 | ||
| Second incarnation (1912–1960, 1 member) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Robert Wynn Williams | Ministerialist | 1912–1915 | |
| William Wellington | Labor
|
1915–1939 | |
| Arthur Jones | Labor
|
1939–1957 | |
| Queensland Labor | 1957–1960 | ||
| Third incarnation (1992–2009, 1 member) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Rob Mitchell | National
|
1992–2001 | |
| Christine Scott | Labor
|
2001–2004 | |
| Shane Knuth | National
|
2004–2008 | |
| Liberal National | 2008–2009 | ||
Election results
See also
- Electoral districts of Queensland
- Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly by year
- Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly by name
References
- Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
External links