The district of Warrego is an electoral district

Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts

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 of the Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 in the Australia

Australia

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n state of Queensland

Queensland

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The electorate lies in the extreme southwest of Queensland, running along the western part of the border with New South Wales

New South Wales

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. It includes a number of rural centres, including the towns of Roma

Roma, Queensland

Roma is a town in the western Darling Downs area of Queensland, Australia, by rail WNW of Brisbane. It is situated at the junction of the Warrego and Carnarvon highways...

, St George

St George, Queensland

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 and Cunnamulla

Cunnamulla, Queensland

Cunnamulla is a small town that lies on the Warrego River in south west Queensland, Australia, south of Charleville, and approximately west of the state capital, Brisbane....

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Warrego was, as with the rest of the state, held by independents and loose groupings of members around the government of the day until the first years of the twentieth century, when the partisan system took hold. It then became a stronghold of the centre-left Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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, who held it without interruption from 1908 to 1974. The decline of the rural working class changed the demographics of the electorate drastically, however, and it fell to the conservative National Party of Australia

National Party of Australia

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 at the height of the popularity of the Bjelke-Petersen

Joh Bjelke-Petersen

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 government in 1974. The National Party strongly increased their hold on the seat thereafter, and it is today one of their safest seats. The current member, Howard Hobbs

Howard Hobbs

Howard William Thomas Hobbs is an Australian politician representing the seat of Warrego in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 1 November 1986. He was a member of the National Party of Australia until the Queensland division merged with the Liberal party to form the Liberal National Party...

, has held the seat since 1985, and was re-elected with 62% of the vote at the 2006 state election.

Members for Warrego

Member		Party	Term
	Frederick Forbes	Unaligned	1865–1867
	Graham Mylne	Unaligned	1867–1868
	Sir Arthur Hodgson Arthur Hodgson Sir Arthur Hodgson KCMG was an Australian pioneer and politician.-Early life:Hodgson was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England; the second son of the Rev. Edward Hodgson and his third wife Charlotte, daughter of Francis William Pemberton of Bombay, India...	Unaligned	1868–1869
	Sir 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...	Ministerialist	1870–1871
	Archibald Buchanan	Ministerialist	1871–1873
	William Henry Walsh William Henry Walsh William Henry Walsh Queensland squatter and politician. Member of New South Wales' Legislative Assembly 1859-1860, member of Queensland's Legislative Assembly from 1865–1878 and Queensland’s Legislative Council from 1879-1888...	Ministerialist	1873–1878
	Ernest Stevens	Independent	1878–1883
	John Donaldson	Independent/Ministerialist	1883–1888
	Richard Casey	Unaligned	1888–1893
	Sir Arthur Hodgson Arthur Hodgson Sir Arthur Hodgson KCMG was an Australian pioneer and politician.-Early life:Hodgson was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England; the second son of the Rev. Edward Hodgson and his third wife Charlotte, daughter of Francis William Pemberton of Bombay, India...	Unaligned	1888–1893
	James Crombie	Ministerialist	1893–1898
	William Hood	Ministerialist	1898–1899
	David Bowman	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1899–1902
	Patrick Leahy	Ministerialist/Opposition	1902–1907
	George Barber	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1907
	Patrick Leahy	Ministerialist/Opposition	1907–1908
	John Coyne	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1908–1923
	Randolph Bedford Randolph Bedford Randolph Bedford was an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer and Queensland state politician.-Early life:...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1923–1941
	Harry O'Shea	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1941–1950
	John Dufficy John Dufficy John Joseph Dufficy was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Warrego in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1951 to 1969....	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1951–1969
	John Aiken	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1969–1974
	Neil Turner Neil Turner (Australian politician) Neil John Turner was a National Party of Australia politician from Queensland a former Minister of Transport and former Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.Turner was born in 1934 in Charleville...	Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1974–1975
		National Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1975–1982
		National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1982–1986
	Howard Hobbs Howard Hobbs Howard William Thomas Hobbs is an Australian politician representing the seat of Warrego in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 1 November 1986. He was a member of the National Party of Australia until the Queensland division merged with the Liberal party to form the Liberal National Party...	National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	1986–2008
		Liberal National	2008–present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)