The district of Condamine 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

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...

 in the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n state of Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

.

Condamine takes in areas to the north-west, west and south of Toowoomba

Toowoomba, Queensland

Toowoomba is a city in Southern Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. With an estimated district population of 128,600, Toowoomba is Australia's second largest inland city and its largest non-capital inland city...

. It includes the towns of Dalby

Dalby, Queensland

Dalby is a town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, and is located approximately west of the state capital, Brisbane, at the junction of the Warrego, Moonie and Bunya Highways. Dalby is the administrative centre of the Western Downs Region and the centre of Australia's richest...

, Oakey

Oakey, Queensland

Oakey is a rural town situated in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. It is situated west of the state capital, Brisbane, and west of the regional city of Toowoomba. At the 2006 census, Oakey had a population of 3,657.-History:...

, Pittsworth

Pittsworth, Queensland

Pittsworth is a town located in the Darling Downs region of southern Queensland, Australia.-Location:Located 169 km south-west of Brisbane via the Warrego Highway, 41 km south-west of Toowoomba and 518 m above sea-level, Pittsworth presents itself to the world as a town with lots of interesting...

 and Clifton

Clifton, Queensland

Clifton is a town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The lands around the town was first settled by Europeans in 1840. At the 2006 census, Clifton had a population of 1,067....

. The district is named for the Condamine River

Condamine River

The Condamine River, part of the Murray-Darling Basin, drains the northern portion of the Darling Downs, an area of sub-coastal southern Queensland, Australia...

 which runs through it. Created for the 2009 state election

Queensland state election, 2009

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, it was mostly made up of territory previously belonging to the abolished districts of Cunningham

Electoral district of Cunningham

Cunningham was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1888 to 2009.Prior to its abolition, the district occupied an area of the Darling Downs, south and west of Toowoomba. Historically it was centred on the town of Clifton. The eastern portion...

 and Darling Downs. It also drew a small amount of voters previously belonging to the district of Toowoomba South

Electoral district of Toowoomba South

The district of Toowoomba South is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1972 redistribution, and replaced the abolished Toowoomba East....

. Originally proposed to be named Dalby

Electoral district of Dalby

Dalby was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It existed from 1873 to 1949 and centred on the town of Dalby.-Members for Dalby:...

 by the Electoral Commission of Queensland, the name Condamine was adopted instead upon further review.

There was also earlier district known as Condamine that existed from 1950 to 1992. It was based in the same region.

History

The electorate's re-introduction at the 2009 state election pitted two sitting members against each other. MPs Ray Hopper

Ray Hopper

Raymond Gordon Hopper is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2001. Originally elected as an independent in 2001, he joined the National Party later that year and the Liberal National Party in 2008...

 and Stuart Copeland

Stuart Copeland

Stuart William Copeland is an Australian politician. He was a National/Liberal National from 2001 to 2009, representing the district of Cunningham....

 both had their districts, Darling Downs and Cunningham respectively, abolished and largely absorbed into Condamine. Whilst both had belonged to the Liberal National Party (LNP), Copeland stood as an independent after failing to win LNP endorsement, only to be defeated by Hopper at the election.

Members for Condamine

First incarnation (1950–1992)
Member		Party	Term
	Frederick Allpass	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...	1950–1953
	Les Diplock	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...	1953–1957
		Queensland Labor Queensland Labor Party The Queensland Labor Party was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Australian Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair...	1957–1960
	Vic Sullivan	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 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...	1975–1982
		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...	1982–1983
	Brian Littleproud Brian Littleproud Brian George Littleproud is a former Australian politician. He was a National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1983 to 2001, representing Condamine until 1992 and Western Downs thereafter....	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...	1983–1992
Second incarnation (2009–present)
Member		Party	Term
	Ray Hopper Ray Hopper Raymond Gordon Hopper is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2001. Originally elected as an independent in 2001, he joined the National Party later that year and the Liberal National Party in 2008...	Liberal National	2009–present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)