| Mulgrave Queensland—Legislative Assembly |
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Mulgrave (2008—) |
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| State or territory: | Queensland |
| Dates current: | 1873–1888; 1950–present |
| MP: | Curtis Pitt |
| Party: | Labor |
| Namesake: | Mulgrave River |
Mulgrave is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
The district in its present form is a narrow coastal strip running from the southern suburbs of Cairns at its northern end to Innisfail at its southern end. Mulgrave also includes the towns of Gordonvale and Babinda. The electorate was first created for the 1950 election.
There was an earlier district also called Mulgrave that existed from 1873 to 1888. It was based on the town of Bundaberg.
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| First incarnation (1873–1888) | |||
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| Member | Party | Term | |
| Walter Jervoise Scott | Squatter conservative | 1873–1878 | |
| Thomas McIlwraith | Conservative leader | 1878–1886 | |
| Walter Adams | Unaligned | 1886–1888 | |
| Second incarnation (1950–present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Robert Watson | Country | 1950–1953 | |
| Charles English | Labor | 1953–1957 | |
| Queensland Labor | 1957 | ||
| Robert Watson | Country | 1957–1959 | |
| Carlisle Wordsworth | Country | 1959–1960 | |
| Roy Armstrong | Country | 1960–1975 | |
| National Country | 1975–1980 | ||
| Max Menzel | National Country | 1980–1982 | |
| National | 1982–1989 | ||
| Warren Pitt | Labor | 1989–1995 | |
| Naomi Wilson | National | 1995–1998 | |
| Charles Rappolt | One Nation | 1998 | |
| Warren Pitt | Labor | 1998–2009 | |
| Curtis Pitt | Labor | 2009–present | |
| Queensland state election, 2009: Mulgrave[1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Curtis Pitt | 11,754 | 48.0 | -11.8 | |
| Liberal National | Vic Black | 8,186 | 33.4 | -6.8 | |
| Independent | Damian Byrnes | 3,168 | 12.9 | +12.9 | |
| Greens | Hugh Whitehouse | 1,373 | 5.6 | +5.6 | |
| Total formal votes | 24,481 | 97.3 | |||
| Informal votes | 594 | 2.7 | |||
| Turnout | 25,075 | 90.3 | |||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Curtis Pitt | 12,876 | 58.1 | -1.7 | |
| Liberal National | Vic Black | 9,293 | 41.9 | +1.7 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -1.7 | |||