Electoral district of East Moreton (Queensland)
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East Moreton was an electoral district
of the Legislative Assembly
in the Australia
n state of Queensland
from 1860 to 1878.
The district took in the south-east corner of the state, south of Brisbane
and Ipswich
. It was a dual member electorate from 1860 to 1873 and a single member electorate from 1873 to 1878.
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...
of the 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 1860 to 1878.
The district took in the south-east corner of the state, south of Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
and Ipswich
Ipswich, Queensland
Ipswich is a city in South-East Queensland, Australia. Situated along the Bremer River Valley approximately 40 kilometres away from the state's capital Brisbane. The suburb by the same name forms the city's Central Business District and administrative centre...
. It was a dual member electorate from 1860 to 1873 and a single member electorate from 1873 to 1878.
Members for East Moreton
| Dual member electorate (1860–1873) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | George Edmondstone George Edmondstone George Edmondstone was an alderman and mayor in the Brisbane Municipal Council. .-Personal life:George Edmondstone was born on 4 May 1809 in... |
Unaligned | 1860–1867 | Henry Buckley Henry Buckley Henry Buckley was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for two terms between 1856 and 1859 and after the creation of the separate colony of Queensland he became a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.-Early life:Buckley was born in... |
Unaligned | 1860–1860 | |||
| Thomas Warry | Unaligned | 1860–1863 | |||||||||
| William Brookes | Unaligned | 1863–1863 | |||||||||
| Robert Cribb | Unaligned | 1863–1867 | |||||||||
| Arthur Francis | Unaligned | 1867–1870 | James Garrick | Unaligned | 1867–1868 | ||||||
| John Douglas John Douglas (Queensland politician) John Douglas CMG was an Anglo-Australian politician and Premier of Queensland.Douglas was born in London, the seventh son of Henry Alexander Douglas and his wife Elizabeth Dalzell, daughter of the Earl of Carnwarth... |
Unaligned | 1868–1868 | |||||||||
| Henry Jordan | Unaligned | 1868–1871 | |||||||||
| Travers Atkin | Unaligned | 1870–1872 | |||||||||
| William Hemmant | Unaligned | 1871–1873 | |||||||||
| 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:... |
Unaligned | 1872–1873 | |||||||||
| Single member electorate (1873–1878) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| William Fryar William Fryar William Fryar was an early Australian surveyor, politician, businessman and mining inspector.-Biography:... |
Unaligned | 1873–1877 | |
| James Garrick | Unaligned | 1877–1878 | |