Electoral district of Dalrymple

Dalrymple was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 2009 to 2017.

[1] Based in inland northern Queensland, Dalrymple was a north–south elongated electorate, running from the Atherton Tableland west of Cairns at its northern end, down to areas west of Mackay at its southern end.

[2] Dalrymple was first created for the 2009 election from parts of the abolished electorates of Charters Towers and Tablelands.

The district's first contest pitted two incumbent MPs against each other, with sitting Charters Towers MP Shane Knuth of the Liberal National Party defeating sitting Tablelands MP Rosa Lee Long, of One Nation.

He was handily re-elected in the face of the massive landslide to the LNP at the 2012 state election, besting his replacement as LNP candidate by an almost 2-to-1 two-party-preferred margin, and actually won enough primary votes to retain the seat outright.