2020 Queensland state election

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2020 Queensland state election

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All 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
47 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered3,377,476 Increase4.6%
Turnout2,969,347 (87.92%)
(Increase0.4 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk Deb Frecklington Robbie Katter
Party Labor Liberal National Katter's Australian
Leader's seat Inala Nanango Traeger
Last election 48 seats, 35.4% 39 seats, 33.7% 3 seats, 2.32%
Seats before 48 38[a] 3
Seats won 52 34 3
Seat change Increase 4 Decrease 4 Steady
Popular vote 1,134,969 1,029,442 72,168
Percentage 39.6% 35.9% 2.5%
Swing Increase 4.1 Increase 2.2 Increase 0.2
TPP 53.2% 46.8%
TPP swing Increase 1.9 Decrease 1.9

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
PHON
NQF
Leader No leader No leader Jason Costigan
Party Greens Pauline Hanson's One Nation NQ First
Leader's seat N/A N/A Whitsunday
(lost seat)
Last election 1 seat, 10.0% 1 seat, 13.7% Did not exist
Seats before 1 1 1[a]
Seats won 2 1 0
Seat change Increase 1 Steady Decrease 1
Popular vote 271,514 204,316 5,616
Percentage 9.5% 7.1% 0.2%
Swing Decrease 0.5 Decrease 6.6 Increase 0.2

Winning margin by electorate.

Premier before election

Annastacia Palaszczuk
Labor

Elected Premier

Annastacia Palaszczuk
Labor

The 2020 Queensland state election was held on 31 October 2020 to elect all 93 members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. It was conducted by the Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ).

The incumbent Labor government, led by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, won a third term in government, opposed by the Liberal National Party (LNP), led by Deb Frecklington.

Notes[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 At the previous election, Jason Costigan won the Electoral district of Whitsunday under the Liberal National Party, however was expelled from the party in February 2019.[1] After sitting as an Independent MP for over eight-months, Costigan established, and lead, his own party to the election.

References[change | change source]

  1. "LNP expels north Queensland MP Jason Costigan". ABC News. 1 February 2019. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2019.