Electoral district of Barambah

Barambah was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1950 to 2001.^[1]

Barambah Queensland—Legislative Assembly
State	Queensland
Created	1950
Abolished	2001
Namesake	Barambah
Demographic	Rural
Coordinates	26°17′S 151°57′E

The district was based in the South Burnett region. It was the seat of long-serving Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

Barambah was created in 1950, essentially as a reconfiguring of the old seat of Nanango. Fittingly, when Barambah was abolished in 2001, it was replaced by a recreated Nanango.^{[citation needed]}

The seat was safely conservative for its entire existence. However, it fell to the Citizens Electoral Council at the 1988 by-election called after Bjelke-Petersen was forced out of politics–the only seat ever won by that party at the state or federal level in Australia. The winner of that by-election, Trevor Perrett, joined the National Party later in 1988. He held the seat until 1998, when Dorothy Pratt won it as part of One Nation's breakthrough in Queensland. Pratt herself left the party in 1999, and transferred to Nanango after Barambah was abolished in 2001.^{[citation needed]}

Members for Barambah

Member		Party	Term
	Joh Bjelke-Petersen	Country	1950–1974
		National	1974–1987
	Trevor Perrett	Citizens Electoral Council	1988
		National	1988–1998
	Dorothy Pratt	One Nation	1998–1999
		Independent	1999–2001

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Barambah

See also

• Electoral districts of Queensland
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly by year
• Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly by name