[3][4] Auchenflower Ward was established as part of the redistribution prior to the 1973 Brisbane City Council election,[1][5] as part of a reduction in the total number of wards from 28 to 21.
[6] At the 1973 election, Auchenflower was one of the twenty wards won by the Labor Party.
[1] The ward also included the majority of Bardon and Toowong, along with parts of Milton, Paddington, and Taringa.
[1] At the 1976 election, the ward was won for the Liberal Party by Denver Beanland.
Beanland served as the ward's Alderman up until its abolishment at the 1985 election.