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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Electoral District Of Cooper
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 election by Labor's Kate Jones. It was named after pioneer doctor Lilian Violet Cooper.

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.

Members for Cooper

Member Party Term
  Kate Jones Labor 2017–2020
  Jonty Bush Labor 2020–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Cooper
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Queensland state election § Cooper.[edit]
2020 Queensland state election: Cooper
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

See also