Andrew Willcox is an Australian politician and former mayor who is a member of the

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since 2022, representing the

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. He is a member of the Liberal National Party and sits with the National Party in federal parliament.

Biography

Willcox was born and grew up in

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, as a third-generation tomato farmer. Willcox elected on to the

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as a Division 6 councillor in 2012. He was subsequently elected as the mayor of the Whitsunday Regional Council in 2016, and was re-elected to the same position in April 2020. In August 2021, Willcox was selected as a Liberal National Party candidate for the

. In April 2022, he took leave from his mayoralty role to contest the 2022 federal election. He was elected at the federal election on 21 May and subsequently resigned as Mayor officially in June.

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