See main article: 1995 Queensland local elections.
| Country: | Queensland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | parliamentary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ongoing: | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next Election: | 1997 Cairns City Council election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next Year: | 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Election Date: | 11 March 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1995 Cairns City Council election was held on 11 March 1995 to elect a mayor and councillors to the City of Cairns, a local government area (LGA) of Queensland, Australia.
The election was one of three held in 1995 following several amalgamations, which included the Shire of Mulgrave being absorbed into Cairns City.[1]
Outgoing Mulgrave chairman Tom Pyne easily defeated incumbent Cairns mayor Kevin Byrne in the mayoral election.[2]
Mulgrave, formed in 1879, surrounded the City of Cairns in the Far North, and was administered from Cairns. It covered an area of 1718.3km2, and by the time of the 1991 census, 88% of it population resided within Cairns's metropolitan area.
The Commission recommended that the shire be merged into Cairns City, which happened when the Local Government (Cairns, Douglas, Mareeba and Mulgrave) Regulation 1994 was gazetted on 16 December 1994.