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topicnews · October 26, 2024

Queensland election results: Vote counting continues as expected with a close result

Queensland election results: Vote counting continues as expected with a close result

Polls are closed in Queensland, marking a tense wait for the two leaders looking to secure the top job in the next government.
More than 3.6 million people have cast their votes and the count is now beginning to determine whether Labor will remain in government or whether the Liberal National Party will step in.
Opposition leader David Crisafulli has been tipped to end Labor’s nine-year reign after dominating early in the polls ahead of Premier Steven Miles.

Queensland’s election is heading to a photo finale after a rollercoaster four-week campaign. Source: AAP / Darren England

A Courier Mail exit poll of 2,000 voters across the state showed the LNP had won 33.9 per cent of the vote, with Labor close behind with 33.6 per cent.

In Brisbane on Saturday, Miles and his wife Kim cast their votes at Kallangur State School, while Crisafulli and his wife Tegan voted at Springwood State High School.
Crisafulli spent the day visiting locations on the Gold Coast and north Brisbane to spread the message that Queenslanders “deserve better than what they get”.

Meanwhile, the incumbent prime minister is fighting to win a term of his own after succeeding Annastacia Palaszczuk, who resigned at the end of 2023.

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Opposition leader David Crisafulli made a last-minute address to voters on Saturday morning. Source: AAP / Jono Searle

Miles wanted a chance to make good on the promises he made to Queenslanders, he told reporters after his 36-hour blitz.

But the last-ditch attempt to convince voters may have been in vain after nearly two million people cast their ballots early.
Not everything went smoothly on election day when Traeger MP Robbie Katter called the lawyers about a corflute, claiming Katter’s Australian party had made a deal with Labor.
“Lies and mudslinging are the refuge of the intellectually bankrupt – that’s what you do when you have nothing else left,” Katter said of the LNP, which he accused of putting up the sign.

“If they want to run the state that way, that’s a really bad sign.”

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Prime Minister Steven Miles cast his vote after winning dozens of seats in the final days of the campaign. Source: AAP / Darren England

The LNP is seeking to form its first government since Campbell Newman’s 2012-2015 term, which paved the way for nine years of Labor.

On what issues did the parties conduct election campaigns?

During the election campaign, both heads of state and government campaigned vigorously on important election issues such as youth crime, housing, health and cost of living pressure.
But in the past two weeks after a maverick vowed to repeal the law if elected.
Abortion was decriminalized in Queensland in 2018.

Crisafulli has been under enormous pressure over the past two weeks and has repeatedly refused to explain how he would guarantee that abortion laws would not change.

It coincided with the LNP’s decline in the polls.
The latest news poll conducted for The Australian found Miles rated as a better premier at 45 percent, compared to 42 percent for Crisafulli.
But the LNP remained ahead on the two-party preference basis with 52 per cent to Labour’s 47 per cent.
Labor has 51 seats and the LNP 35.

For a majority government, a party needs 47 seats.

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