West Moreton was the name of two incarnations of an electoral district

Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts

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 of the Legislative Assembly

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 in the Australia

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n state of Queensland

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The original district, named for the region it covered

West Moreton

West Moreton is a region of the Australian state of Queensland, consisting of the entire rural western portion of South East Queensland. It sits inland from both the Brisbane metropolitan area and the Gold Coast and to the east of the Darling Downs. Much of the region lies in the Great Dividing Range...

, took in all of the Brisbane River

Brisbane River

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 catchment area as well as Ipswich

Ipswich, Queensland

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 and Laidley

Laidley, Queensland

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, bordering New South Wales

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 to the south. It elected three members from 1860 to 1873 and one member from 1873 until its abolition in 1878. The district seated two Premiers: Robert Herbert

Robert Herbert

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 and George Thorn, Jr.

George Thorn

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The district was re-created in 1932 to take in an area west of Brisbane

Brisbane

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. It was abolished in 1949.

Members for West Moreton

Three member electorate (1860–1873)
Member		Party	Term	|Member	Party	Term
	Alfred Broughton	Unaligned	1860–1860		George Thorn, Sr.	Unaligned	1860–1861		William Nelson	Unaligned	1860–1860
									Joseph Fleming	Unaligned	1860–1862
	Henry Challinor	Unaligned	1861–1863
					Benjamin Cribb Benjamin Cribb Benjamin Cribb was an Australian businessman and politician. He was an unaligned member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term in 1858-9 and a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1861-7 and again in 1870-3.-Early life:Cribb was born in Poole, Dorset, England; the...	Unaligned	1861–1867
									Joshua Peter Bell Joshua Peter Bell Sir Joshua Peter Bell K.C.M.G. was a pastoralist and parliamentarian from Queensland, Australia. His eldest son was barrister and parliamentarian Joshua Thomas Bell.-Early life:...	Unaligned	1862–1868
	Robert Herbert Robert Herbert Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert, GCB , was the first Premier of Queensland, Australia.-Early years:Born in Brighton, England, Herbert was the only son of the Hon. Algernon Herbert, a younger son of the first Earl of Carnarvon. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford...	Unaligned	1863–1866
	Joseph Fleming	Unaligned	1866–1867
	George Thorn, Jr. George Thorn George Henry Thorn was a Premier of Queensland, Australia.Thorn was born in Sydney, New South Wales, a son of George Thorn, one of the founders of the city of Ipswich and a member of the first Queensland legislative assembly. He was schooled at The King's School, Parramatta and the University of...	Unaligned	1867–1873		Patrick O'Sullivan	Unaligned	1867–1868
					Samuel Hodgson	Unaligned	1868–1870		Frederick Forbes	Unaligned	1868–1873
					John Ferrett	Unaligned	1870–1873

Single member electorate
First incarnation (1873–1878)
Member		Party	Term
	James Foote	Unaligned	1873–1877
Second incarnation (1932–1949)
Member		Party	Term
	Ted Maher	Country and Progressive National Country and Progressive National Party The Country and Progressive National Party was a short-lived conservative political party in the Australian state of Queensland.-History:It was created in 1925 as the result of a merger between the state's two conservative parties, the United Party and the Country Party, in an attempt to end...	1932–1936
		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...	1936–1949