This trend is only likely to continue if Cook MP Billy Gordon remains in his position as an independent.  

The combined electorates of Mount Isa, Dalrymple, Cook and even Nicklin have an area size marginally more than half of Queensland’s 1,733,897 square kilometres. 

And the borders of the three larger electorates connect. 

Mount Isa KAP state member Rob Katter covers a jurisdiction of 570,502 square kilometres – the state’s largest electorate, almost the size of France.

KAP’s Shane Knuth represents the Dalrymple electorate – an area of 105,337 square kilometres.

Cook covers 196,805 square kilometres in the Cape York Peninsula.

Independent Peter Wellington controls Nicklin in the Sunshine Coast. 

It’s only a dot on the map compared to the larger electorates – 920 square kilometres. 

Griffith University political analyst Paul Williams said the combined size is “an interesting geopolitical curiosity that is almost an accident of circumstance that has no impact on policy making”.

He predicted that Mr Katter, Mr Knuth and Mr Gordon could use the knowledge as a “useful rhetorical device” to lobby for their electorates’ importance. 

“But the rest of Queensland knows that its people and not hectares that matter,” Dr Williams said.

The government was in an awkward position if there was a union between three crossbenchers’ regardless of the size or location of the electorates they represented. 

Dr Williams supported a proposed increase of electorates from 89 to 92, suggested recently by Mr Knuth, and believed it was overdue considering the increase in Queensland’s population. 

But the increase should not be to the disadvantage of south east Queensland voters, Dr Williams said. 

The four electorates’ percentage of Queensland’s voters supports Dr Williams’ view.

They contain 3.72 per cent of the state’s voters according to 2015 state election data.