Prior to 1976, conservative councillors stood on a variety of different platforms: the United Party, Nationalist Citizens Party, Civic Reform League, the
Citizens' Municipal Organisation, the Liberal Civic Party and the Brisbane Civic Party. The United Party and its successor the Nationalist Citizens Party were created as the vehicle for conservative candidates to campaign against Labor candidates in the newly formed Brisbane City Council, without formally acknowledging their links to the main conservative party of the time. The Nationalist Citizens Party was doomed when the very conservative Civic Reform League was created on 12 December 1930. That saw most of the conservative councillors from the Nationalist Citizens Party, led by Acting Mayor Watson, defect to the Civic Reform League, which failed to win the subsequent elections. The Progress Party was created at the same time and, in the 1931 election, saw only three of its candidates win, including John Greene, who became Lord Mayor as a compromise candidate amongst the 20 alderman. The
Citizens' Municipal Organisation (CMO) was ostensibly a non-partisan grouping, but was informally aligned with the
United Australian Party and then, after 1944, the newly formed
Liberal Party. The CMO was formed on 23 June 1936 and was the platform for the election campaigns of Sir John Chandler and Sir Reg Groom. Finally, in the 1976 election, the Liberal Party began to contest Brisbane municipal elections under its own name. ==Electoral results==