Australian Politics and Policy - Senior, 2019a

Queensland
Queensland – or at least the southeast – should join the rest of eastern Australia in
the adoption of summer daylight saving. Queensland politics and political culture
are evolving creatures but, for now, Queensland remains different.
Table 5 Queensland election results, primary vote and seat share, 1989–2017
Election Labor Liberal–National * Other
Vote Seats Vote Seats Vote Seats
1989 50.3 54 45.1 35 4.6 0
1992^ 48.7 54 44.1 35 7.2 0
1995 ¥ 42.9 45 49.0 44 8.1 0
1998 38.9 44 31.3 32 29.8 # 13
2001 48.9 66 28.5 15 22.6 8
2004 47.0 63 35.5 20 16.5 6
2006 46.9 59 37.9 25 15.2 5
2009 42.3 51 41.6 34 16.1 4
2012 26.7 7 49.7 78 23.6 ± 4
2015 37.5 44 41.3 42 21.2 3
2017 ** 35.4 48 33.7 39 30.9 6
Source: Electoral Commission of Queensland n.d.
Notes: * The 1989 and 1992 elections saw the stand-alone Liberal and National parties
compete independently; between 1995 and 2006 the Liberal and National parties contested
elections under a formal coalition; the two parties merged into a single Liberal–National
Party in 2008. ^ 1992 was the first election conducted on fair boundaries without a zonal
system. ¥ The 1995 election saw Labor win 45 seats to the Coalition’s 44, with the Court of
Disputed Returns later overturning the Mundingburra result; the subsequent 1996 reelection
saw the Liberals win; the Goss government resigned in February, 1996. # One
Nation’s 22.7 per cent and 11 seats comprised most of the ‘Other’ vote in 1998; ± Katter’s
Australian Party (11.5 per cent and two seats) comprised most of the ‘Other’ vote in 2012.
** The 2017 election was for 93 seats.
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