1934 Brisbane City Council election

1934 Brisbane City Council elections

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All 19 seats on Brisbane City Council 10 seats needed for a majority
Lord Mayor
First party Second party Third party   Candidate Alfred James Jones John William Greene A. J. Paterson Party Labor National Citizens' Communist Primary  vote 79,367 76,524 8,262 Percentage 48.35% 46.62% 5.03%
Lord Mayor before election John William Greene Independent Progressive Subsequent Lord Mayor Alfred James Jones Labor
Aldermen
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Labor Alfred James Jones 12 +5 National Citizens' John William Greene 5 −7 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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

Lord Mayor

1934 Brisbane mayoral election ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	William Jolly	79,367	48.35
	National Citizens'	John William Greene	76,524	46.62
	Communist	A. J. Paterson	8,262	5.03
Total formal votes			164,153
Informal votes
Turnout
	Labor win		(new seat)

Wards

Ward [3]	Party		Councillor
Brisbane		Labor	J. A. Moir
Bulimba		Labor	William McAuliffe
Buranda		Labor	A. Laurie
Enoggera		National Citizens'	Ernest Lanham
Fortitude Valley		Labor	E. F. O'Brien
Hamilton		National Citizens'	Archibald Houston Tait
Ithaca		Labor	William Robert Warmington
Kelvin Grove		Labor	W. J. Graham
Kurilpa		Labor	Joseph Moore
Logan		Labor	J. I. Brown
Maree		Labor	Alexander Skirving
Oxley		National Citizens'	John Edward Lane
Paddington		Labor	William Power
Sandgate		National Citizens'	Eric Decker
South Brisbane		Labor	W. V. Hefferan
Toowong		Independent	Harry Massey
Windsor		Labor	H. Williams
Wynnum		National Citizens'	William Logan Dart

References

1. "Warwick Municipal Elections". Townsville Daily Bulletin. 11 April 1933.
2. "BRISBANE COUNCIL". The Toowoomba Chronicle And Darling Downs Gazette . Vol. LXXIII, no. 105. Queensland, Australia. 4 May 1934. p. 7. Retrieved 1 July 2025– via National Library of Australia.
3. "BRISBANE COUNCIL - Labour Secures Majority BRISBANE, April 29. - The Central Queensland Herald (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1930 - 1956) - 3 May 1934". Central Queensland Herald. 3 May 1934. Retrieved 20 March 2017.