close
close

topicnews · October 26, 2024

Queensland election results: LNP expected to form government as Labor loses majority

Queensland election results: LNP expected to form government as Labor loses majority

Queensland is facing a change of government as the Liberal National Party is on track to win a majority of seats.
The LNP was on track for a majority government late on Saturday after early counts showed the potential for a stalemate in parliament.
The LNP has been guaranteed 44 seats and is on track to win the 47 seats needed to form a majority government, ABC election analyst Antony Green said.

“But it’s certainly not the landslide it was supposed to be a month ago,” he said.

The Queensland election was a close race after a rollercoaster four weeks of campaigning. Source: AAP / Darren England

Miles said he gave it his all in the election but Labor had lost its majority.

However, he doubted the LNP could form a majority government.
“Watching the results… tonight has not been enough to secure a majority of seats for Labor and it is unlikely the LNP will have a majority,” he said.
Crisafulli would become only the second Queensland Liberal leader this millennium, after Campbell Newman held power from 2012 to 2015.
The Broadwater MP had long been under the impression that he would end Labour’s nine-year term, with polls favoring Crisafulli for much of the term and before .
But Miles and Labour until election day.
QLD ELECTION 2024

Opposition leader David Crisafulli’s Liberal National Party was believed to be doing stronger than the first count suggested. Source: AAP / Jono Searle

Miles and Crisafulli spent the final day of the campaign lobbying voters at polling stations, but had a long night as pre-counting in the primary showed a close race.

With almost 40 percent of votes counted, there was a 6.0 percent swing to the Liberal National Party – more than the uniform 5.7 percent it needed to form a government.
Labor went into the election with 51 seats, while the LNP had 35 seats.
Prime Minister Steven Miles made up ground in public opinion at the last minute.
Deputy Prime Minister Cameron Dick said his party had made huge progress after facing “complete extinction” in 2023.

Labor national leader Wayne Swan said Miles had put up a good fight and he hoped he remained opposition leader.

QLD ELECTION 2024

Labor leader Wayne Swan says Steven Miles ran an outstanding election campaign that could have spelled disaster. Source: AAP / Darren England

He said Miles ran one of the best campaigns he has seen in the last 40 years, increasing the under-40 vote in the party thanks to his politics and TikTok presence.

“It was a campaign on these issues and they made a major breakthrough – their cost of living initiatives, which were not adopted by the LNP… a major breakthrough in highlighting the US anti-abortion approach to the LNP” , he told AAP. “It was a first-class campaign that prevented what could have been a landslide four months ago.”
The LNP won the seat of Townsville by a margin of 6.9 per cent over Labor.

The number of seats in question was 10, with the Katter Australian Party winning three seats and the Greens only one, losing their coveted South Brisbane seat to 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.

More than 3.6 million people cast their votes, and two million people voted early.

You may also like...