Cooper is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in the 2017 redistribution, and was won at that year's state electionbyLabor's Kate Jones. It was named after pioneer doctor Lilian Violet Cooper.[1]
| Cooper Queensland—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Map of Cooper, 2017
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| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 2017–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Jonty Bush | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor Party | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Lilian Violet Cooper | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 37,386 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 63 km2 (24.3 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Outer-metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°26′46″S 152°56′07″E / 27.4462°S 152.9353°E / -27.4462; 152.9353 | ||||||||||||||
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It largely covers the areas of the abolished electorate of Ashgrove. Located in Northern Brisbane, it consists of the suburbs of Enoggera Reservoir, The Gap, Bardon, Ashgrove, Red Hill, Paddington and Milton.[1]
| Member | Party | Term | |
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| Kate Jones | Labor | 2017–2020 | |
| Jonty Bush | Labor | 2020–present | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labor | Jonty Bush | 11,509 | 34.10 | −6.73 | |
| Liberal National | Trent Wiseman | 11,285 | 33.44 | −2.15 | |
| Greens | Katinka Winston-Allom | 10,000 | 29.63 | +9.02 | |
| One Nation | Susan Ventnor | 587 | 1.74 | +1.74 | |
| Independent | Robert Wiltshire | 366 | 1.08 | −1.88 | |
| Total formal votes | 33,747 | 98.70 | +1.14 | ||
| Informal votes | 443 | 1.30 | −1.14 | ||
| Turnout | 34,190 | 91.45 | +1.49 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Jonty Bush | 20,414 | 60.49 | −0.16 | |
| Liberal National | Trent Wiseman | 13,333 | 39.51 | +0.16 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | −0.16 | |||