Electoral district of Salisbury (Queensland)

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Salisbury
QueenslandLegislative Assembly
StateQueensland
Created1960
Abolished1992
NamesakeSalisbury, Queensland

Salisbury was an

electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1960 to 1992.[1]

It was based on the southern

Brisbane suburb of Salisbury, and was created in the 1959 redistribution under the Nicklin government, mostly from areas split from the district of Sherwood
.

Salisbury was mostly a safe

Liberal, in Labor's landslide defeat at the 1974 election, and not regained until 1983 by future Premier Wayne Goss
.

It was abolished in the 1991 redistribution and its area was absorbed into the new district of Sunnybank and the existing district of Archerfield.

Members for Salisbury

Member Party Term
  Doug Sherrington[2]
Labor
1960–1974
Rosemary Kyburz
Liberal
1974–1983
Wayne Goss
Labor
1983–1986
Len Ardill
Labor
1986–1992

Election results

See also

References

  1. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 27 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)