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Adam Carr's Election Archive
Commonwealth of Australia
Electoral Divisions of the House of Representatives
Division of Oxley, Queensland (1901-34)

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The Division of Oxley was created in 1901 and abolished in 1934, when it was renamed Griffith. It was named for John Oxley (1784-1829), explorer of NSW and Queensland.

REDISTRIBUTIONS
1901: Brisbane South, Coorparoo, Logan, Woolloongabba
1906: Brisbane South, Toombul, Windsor, Woolloongabba
1913: Brisbane South, Coorparoo, Kangaroo Point, Woolloongabba
1922: Bulimba, Buranda, Kurilpa, Maree

TWO-PARTY MAJORITIES

1901: Protectionist 03.2
1903: Protectionist 02.3
1906: Anti-Socialist 16.6
1910: Liberal 12.2 *1
1913: Labor 04.4
1914: Labor 06.8
1917: Nationalist 02.8

1919: Nationalist 03.8
1922: Nationalist 03.3
1925: Nationalist 05.7
1928: Nationalist 03.7
1929: Nationalist 00.1
1931: Labor 05.8

*1 Majority over independent

ENROLMENTS


ELECTION RESULTS 1901-31
Click here to see full results for Oxley at every election from 1901 to 1931.

MEMBERS FOR OXLEY (1901-34)
Richard Ewards (Prot, AS, Lib) 1901-13
James Sharpe (ALP) 1913-17
James Bayley (Nat, UAP) 1917-31
Francis Baker (ALP) 1931-34


Richard Ewards (Prot, AS, Lib) 1901-13 James Sharpe (ALP) 1913-17 James Bayley (Nat, UAP) 1917-31


Francis Baker (ALP) 1931-34


BOUNDARIES

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1901

1906

1913


1922