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Division of Groom

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Created
  
1984

Electors
  
101,600 (2016)

Founded
  
1984

Elector
  
101,600

Demographic
  
Provincial

Member of parliament
  
Namesake
  
Littleton Groom

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Area
  
5,594 km (2,159.9 sq mi)

Party
  

The Division of Groom is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created in 1984 as essentially a reconfigured version of the old Division of Darling Downs. It is named in honour of Sir Littleton Groom, who represented Darling Downs with only one short break from 1901 to 1936 and served as Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.

It is located in the rural areas west of Brisbane and is centred on the city of Toowoomba, Australia's second largest inland city. Other centres include Oakey and Pittsworth.

The seat has never elected a Labor member in either of its incarnations. While Toowoomba itself (particularly, the northern suburbs) occasionally votes for Labor, it is nowhere near enough to overcome the conservative bent of the rural areas.

References

Division of Groom Wikipedia


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