Division of Leichhardt
The Division of Leichhardt is an Australian electoral division in Queensland.
| Leichhardt Australian House of Representatives Division | |||||||||||||||
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| Created | 1949 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Warren Entsch | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal National | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Ludwig Leichhardt | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 117,262 (2022) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Rural and provincial | ||||||||||||||
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Leichhardt is located in Far North Queensland. It is a very mixed electorate, with its classification ranging from provincial in the south and rural and remote elsewhere. It includes the city of Cairns, as well as many towns such as Cooktown, Port Douglas and Weipa, and several Indigenous communities on the Cape York Peninsula and in the Torres Strait Islands.
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