1934 Brisbane City Council election

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1934 Brisbane City Council elections
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  1931 28 April 1934 (1934-04-28)1937 

20 seats on the Brisbane City Council

Lord Mayor of Brisbane before election

John William Greene
Progressives

Subsequent Lord Mayor

Alfred James Jones
Labor

The 1934 Brisbane City Council election was held on 28 April 1934 to elect the Lord Mayor and councillors for each of the 20 wards of the City of Brisbane, a local government areas (LGA) of Queensland, Australia.

The election was held separate to all other LGAs in Queensland, which had held elections a year prior in April 1933. [1]

Results

Ward [2] PartyCouncillor
Brisbane Labor J. A. Moir
Bulimba Labor W. M'Auliffe
Buranda Labor A. Laurie
EnoggeraNational CitizensE. Lanham
Fortitude Valley Labor E. F. O'Brien
HamiltonCivic ReformA. H. Tait
Ithaca Labor W. R. Warmington
Kelvin Grove Labor W. J. Graham
Kurilpa Labor J. Moore
Logan Labor J. I. Brown
Maree Labor A. Skirving
OxleyNational CitizensJ. E. Lane
Paddington Labor William Power
SandgateProgressives Eric Decker
South Brisbane Labor W. V. Hefferan
Toowong Independent Harry Massey
Windsor Labor H. Williams
Wynnum National CitizensW. L. Dart

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