The electoral district of Aubigny was a Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

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 electorate in the state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Queensland

Queensland

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. It was first created in a redistribution ahead of the 1873 state election, and existed until the 1972 state election.

Based in the Darling Downs to the north and west of the regional city of Toowoomba

Toowoomba, Queensland

Toowoomba is a city in Southern Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. With an estimated district population of 128,600, Toowoomba is Australia's second largest inland city and its largest non-capital inland city...

, Aubigny was a safe seat for the Country Party

National Party of Australia

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, being held by every one of its incarnations from 1915 until its abolition.

Its most notable member was Arthur Edward Moore

Arthur Edward Moore

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, member from 1915 until 1941 and Premier of Queensland from 1929 to 1932.

History

The seat's boundaries changed at a number of redistributions, but remained a seat in the rural hinterland between Dalby

Dalby, Queensland

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 and Toowoomba

Toowoomba, Queensland

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, and to the north of Toowoomba. The seat's place of nomination was consistently either Crows Nest

Crows Nest, Queensland

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 or Oakey

Oakey, Queensland

Oakey is a rural town situated in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. It is situated west of the state capital, Brisbane, and west of the regional city of Toowoomba. At the 2006 census, Oakey had a population of 3,657.-History:...

, both of which were present in all incarnations of the electorate. The seat originally extended as far north as Nanango

Nanango, Queensland

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 and Blackbutt

Blackbutt, Queensland

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 whilst only extending a short distance west to Oakey

Oakey, Queensland

Oakey is a rural town situated in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. It is situated west of the state capital, Brisbane, and west of the regional city of Toowoomba. At the 2006 census, Oakey had a population of 3,657.-History:...

; however, at the 1912 election, its north-south distance was cut by about half, with the northern areas going to the new seat of Nanango

Electoral district of Nanango

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 and some areas on Toowoomba's outskirts such as Highfields

Highfields, Queensland

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 and Wellcamp

Wellcamp, Queensland

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 going to the new seat of Drayton.

At the 1923 election, Drayton was abolished and over two successive redistributions, Aubigny both moved closer to Toowoomba and further west. However, at the 1935 election, with a new seat of East Toowoomba

Electoral district of East Toowoomba

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 taking in the closer areas, Aubigny was pushed north-westwards and absorbed areas to the north and north-east of Dalby

Dalby, Queensland

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 such as Jandowae

Jandowae, Queensland

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 and Bell

Bell, Queensland

Bell is a village in the western foothills of the Bunya Mountains of Queensland, Australia, north of Dalby. At the 2006 census, Bell had a population of 297.....

. The establishment of a zonal electoral system with the Electoral Districts Act 1949 placed areas nearer to Toowoomba in a "provincial cities" zone, so these were removed from Aubigny with Westbrook and Aubigny being substituted in their place.

The final incarnation of Aubigny, beginning from the 1960 election, was a seat to the west and north-west of Toowoomba which included the entire town of Dalby within its boundaries for the first time.

Members for Aubigny

Member		Party	Term
	Edward Pechey		1873–1877
	Patrick Perkins	Conservative	1877–1884
	James Campbell	Conservative	1884–1893
	William Lovejoy	Opposition	1893–1894
	William Thorn	Opposition	1894–1904
	John O'Brien	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...	1904–1907
	Donald McIntyre	Kidston	1907–1908
	William Thorn	Farmer's Rep.	1908–1909
		Ministerial/Queensland Liberal	1909–1912
	Alfred Luke	Ministerial/Queensland Liberal	1912–1915
	Arthur Edward Moore Arthur Edward Moore Arthur Edward Moore, CMG was an Australian politician. He was the Country and Progressive National Party Premier of Queensland, from 1929 to 1932. He was the only Queensland Premier not to come from the ranks of the Labor Party between 1915 and 1957...	Farmers' Union	1915–1917
		Nationalist Nationalist Party of Australia The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...	1917–1919
		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...	1919–1925
		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...	1925–1936
		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...	1936–1941
	Walter Sparkes	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...	1941–1960
	Leslie Diplock	Queensland Labor Queensland Labor Party The Queensland Labor Party was a political party of Queensland, Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Australian Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair...	1960–1962
		Democratic Labor Democratic Labor Party (historical) The Democratic Labor Party was an Australian political party that existed from 1955 until 1978.-History:The DLP was formed as a result of a split in the Australian Labor Party that began in 1954. The split was between the party's national leadership, under the then party leader Dr H.V...	1962–1972