Electoral district of Brisbane North
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Brisbane North was an electoral district
which elected two members to the Queensland Legislative Assembly
in the Australia
n state of Queensland
from 1888 until 1912. It replaced the electorate of North Brisbane
.
Following the Electoral Districts Act 1910, which attempted to apply one vote one value
to Queensland electorates, Brisbane North was split into the seats of Brisbane
and Paddington.
Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts
This is a list of current and former electoral divisions for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the state legislature for Queensland, Australia.-Districts in Far North Queensland:*Barron River*Cairns*Cook*Mulgrave*Dalrymple...
which elected two members to the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Queensland Legislative Assembly
The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...
in the Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n state of Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
from 1888 until 1912. It replaced the electorate of North Brisbane
Electoral district of North Brisbane
North Brisbane was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1878 to 1888.North Brisbane was a two-member constituency, created in 1878 by a merger of Brisbane City with one member and Wickham also with one member.It was replaced/renamed by...
.
Following the Electoral Districts Act 1910, which attempted to apply one vote one value
One vote one value
In Australia, one vote one value is a legislative principle of democracy whereby each electorate has the same population within a specified percentage of variance. In the case of the Commonwealth, the maximum variance for the House of Representatives is 10% above or below the mean...
to Queensland electorates, Brisbane North was split into the seats of Brisbane
Electoral district of Brisbane (Queensland)
Brisbane was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1912 to 1977.Based in inner central Brisbane, north of the Brisbane River, it was first created as a single member constituency for the 1912 state election, largely replacing the dual member...
and Paddington.
Members for Brisbane North
| Member | Party | Term | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Griffith Samuel Griffith Sir Samuel Walker Griffith GCMG QC, was an Australian politician, Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and a principal author of the Constitution of Australia.-Early life:... |
Liberal | 1888–1890 | Thomas McIlwraith Thomas McIlwraith Sir Thomas McIlwraith KCMG was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland. He was Premier of Queensland from 1877 to 1883, again in 1888, and for a third time in 1893... |
Conservative | 1888–1890 | ||
| Ministerial | 1890–1893 | Ministerial | 1890–1896 | ||||
| John James Kingsbury | Ministerial | 1893–1896 | |||||
| Robert Fraser | Independent | 1896–1899 | Thomas MacDonald-Paterson Thomas Macdonald-Paterson Thomas Macdonald-Paterson was an Australian politician. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated there privately before migrating to Australia in 1861, where he became a butcher, speculator and lawyer... |
Ministerial | 1896–1901 | ||
| Edward Barrow Forrest | Ministerial | 1899–1903 | |||||
| John Cameron | Conservative | 1901–1908 | |||||
| Conservative | 1903–1909 | ||||||
| Edward Barton | Kidston | 1908-1909 | |||||
| Ministerial | 1909–1912 | Edward Henry Macartney | Ministerial | 1909–1911 | |||
| Thomas Welsby Thomas Welsby Thomas Welsby was a Queensland businessman, author, politician, and sportsman.-Early life:Born in Ipswich, Queensland in 1858, Welsby was the fourth of ten children of William Welsby and Hannah Welsby His parents migrated from Cornwall to Moreton Bay three years earlier in 1855... |
Ministerial | 1911–1912 | |||||