Mount Coot-tha was an electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in the state of Queensland, Australia from 1950 to 2017.
The electoral district encompassed suburbs in Brisbane's inner-west, including Milton, Auchenflower, Paddington, Red Hill, Bardon and parts of the suburbs of Toowong, Kelvin Grove and Ashgrove. The district took its name from nearby Mount Coot-tha.
Mount Coot-tha was consistently the strongest-performing Queensland state seat for the Greens—22.2 per cent in 2015, 20.7 per cent in 2012 and 23.1 per cent in 2009.
Mount Coot-tha was abolished in a redistribution in 2016 which took effect at the 2017 state election. Most of its territory, including Mount Coot-tha, was merged with the bulk of Indooroopilly to form Maiwar, with other portions being transferred to the districts of Cooper and McConnel.
Members for Mount Coot-tha MemberPartyTerm Kenneth Morris Liberal 1950–1963 Bill Lickiss Liberal 1963–1986 Lyle Schuntner Liberal 1986–1989 Wendy Edmond Labor 1989–2004 Andrew Fraser Labor 2004–2012 Saxon Rice Liberal National 2012–2015 Steven Miles Labor 2015–2017
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