Electoral District Of Mount Coot-tha
Mount Coot-tha is an electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in the state of Queensland, Australia.
The electoral district encompasses suburbs in Brisbane's inner-west, including Milton, Auchenflower, Paddington, Red Hill, Bardon and parts of the suburbs of Toowong, Kelvin Grove, and Ashgrove. The district takes its name from nearby Mount Coot-tha.
Mount Coot-tha has generally changed with the government of the day: it was held by the Liberal Party during the long-running Bjelke-Petersen, Ahern and Cooper governments, before falling to the Australian Labor Party's Wendy Edmond upon the 1989 election of the Goss government. She held the seat until her retirement in 2004, and was succeeded by Labor's Andrew Fraser, who rose to become Deputy Premier and Treasurer under Anna Bligh. However, the seat fell to the Liberal National Party amidst their landslide victory at the 2012 state election, with Fraser being defeated by Saxon Rice.
Historically, Mount Coot-tha has been one of the strongest-performing seats for the Australian Greens—in the 2009 state election, the Greens polled 23.1 percent of the vote.
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