Electoral district of Drayton & Toowoomba
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Electoral District of Drayton and Toowoomba was the original seat for the urban settlement on the eastern Darling Downs. In 1912, it was redistributed into Drayton (1912–1927), Toowoomba
(1912–1960) and East Toowoomba
(1912–1950).
The district elected one member from 1860 to 1878 and two members from 1878 to 1888.
The seat is notable for Member and perennial Toowoomba Mayor William Henry Groom who went on to be the region's representative at the first Commonwealth Parliament in 1901.
Electoral district of Toowoomba
The Electoral District of Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into Toowoomba, East Toowoomba and Drayton...
(1912–1960) and East Toowoomba
Electoral district of East Toowoomba
The Electoral District of East Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into East Toowoomba, Toowoomba and Drayton...
(1912–1950).
The district elected one member from 1860 to 1878 and two members from 1878 to 1888.
The seat is notable for Member and perennial Toowoomba Mayor William Henry Groom who went on to be the region's representative at the first Commonwealth Parliament in 1901.
Members for Drayton and Toowoomba
| Single member electorate (1860–1878) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| John Watts | Unaligned | 1860–1862 | |
| William Henry Groom | Unaligned | 1873–1878 | |
| Dual member electorate (1878–1912) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | William Graham | Unaligned | 1878–1901 | George Davenport | Unaligned | 1878–1881 | |||
| Robert Aland | Unaligned | 1881–1893 | |||||||||
| John Fogarty John Fogarty (Australian politician) John Fogarty was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Parliament, 1893–1904 for the Electoral district of Drayton and Toowoomba and was the mayor of Toowoomba.-References:... |
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... /Opposition |
1893–1904 | |||||||||
| James Tolmie | Ministerialist/Opposition | 1901–1907 | |||||||||
| Edward Smart | 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 | |||||||||
| Vernon Redwood | Ministerialist/Opposition | 1907–1909 | Robert Roberts | Ministerialist/Opposition | 1907–1912 | ||||||
| James Tolmie | Ministerialist/Opposition | 1909–1912 | |||||||||