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An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 17 February 2001 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The result of the election was the return of the Labor Party (ALP) government of Premier Peter Beattie, with an increased majority. Labor won 66 seats, easily the most it has ever won in Queensland and one of Labor’s best-ever results nationwide. There was a 10.07% swing towards Labor, while One Nation suffered a 13.98% swing against it, losing eight seats (five of which were held by the newly formed City Country Alliance after an internal split in December 1999).
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
The states and territories are the first-level administrative divisions of the Commonwealth of Australia. They are the second level of government in Australia, located between the federal and local government tiers.
Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).
The longstanding coalition between the Nationals and Liberals, led by Nationals leader (and former premier) Rob Borbidge recorded only a 2.39% swing against it. However, its support in Brisbane all but vanished; it was reduced to only one seat in the capital. Largely due to losses in Brisbane, the Coalition suffered an overall 17-seat loss. This included only three seats for the Liberals, easily the worst showing for the urban non-Labor party in Queensland since it adopted the Liberal banner in 1948.
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The National Party, known as the Country Party until 1974, was a political party in Queensland, Australia, for much of the period from 1915 until 2008. Formed by the Queensland Farmers' Union and serving as the state branch of the National Party of Australia, it initially sought to represent the interests of the farmers but over time became a more general conservative political party in the state, leading to much debate about relations with other conservative parties and a string of mergers that were soon undone. From 1957 it held power as part of a coalition with the state Liberal Party until 1983 when the Liberals broke away and the Nationals continued to govern in their own right until defeat in 1989. The party formed another coalition with the Liberals that took power in 1996 but was defeated in 1998. After a further decade in opposition the two parties merged to form the Liberal National Party of Queensland.
The Liberal Party, originally the Queensland People's Party, was a political party in Queensland, Australia, from the Second World War until 2008. Initially formed as independent body in 1943, it became the Queensland division of the Liberal Party of Australia in 1949. Based predominantly in Brisbane and other cities in Queensland, from 1957 it held power as the junior party in a coalition with the state Country Party, later the National Party, until 1983 when the Liberals broke away and went into opposition. The party formed another coalition with the Nationals that took power in 1996 but was defeated in 1998. After a further decade in opposition the two parties merged to form the Liberal National Party of Queensland.
Date | Event |
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23 January 2001 | Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election. [1] |
29 January 2001 | Close of electoral rolls. |
30 January 2001 | Close of nominations. |
17 February 2001 | Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm. |
22 February 2001 | The Beattie Ministry was reconstituted. |
2 March 2001 | The writ was returned and the results formally declared. |
Queensland state election, 17 February 2001 [2] | ||||||
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Enrolled voters | 2,276,044 | |||||
Votes cast | 2,107,410 | Turnout | 92.59 | –0.26 | ||
Informal votes | 47,849 | Informal | 2.29 | +0.84 | ||
Summary of votes by party | ||||||
Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
Labor | 1,007,737 | 48.93 | +10.07 | 66 | +22 | |
Liberal | 294,968 | 14.32 | –1.77 | 3 | – 6 | |
Nationals | 291,605 | 14.16 | –1.02 | 12 | – 11 | |
One Nation | 179,076 | 8.69 | –13.98 | 3 | – 8 | |
Greens | 51,630 | 2.51 | +0.15 | 0 | ± 0 | |
City Country Alliance | 49,263 | 2.39 | +2.39 | 0 | ± 0 | |
Democrats | 7,029 | 0.34 | –1.27 | 0 | ± 0 | |
Christian Democrats | 919 | 0.04 | –0.07 | 0 | ± 0 | |
Independent | 177,334 | 8.61 | +6.44 | 5 | + 3 | |
Total | 2,059,561 | 89 | ||||
Seat | Pre-2001 | Swing | Post-2001 | ||||||
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Party | Member | Margin | Margin | Member | Party | ||||
Albert | National | Bill Baumann | 0.3 | -12.9 | 12.6 | Margaret Keech | Labor | ||
Aspley | Liberal | John Goss | 2.0 | -6.7 | 4.7 | Bonny Barry | Labor | ||
Broadwater | National | Allan Grice | 10.7 | -13.1 | 2.4 | Peta-Kaye Croft | Labor | ||
Burdekin | City Country Alliance1 | Jeff Knuth | 8.9 | -14.0 | 5.1 | Steve Rodgers | Labor | ||
Burleigh | National | Judy Gamin | 8.5 | -10.3 | 1.8 | Christine Smith | Labor | ||
Burnett | National | Doug Slack | 9.3 | -11.0 | 1.7 | Trevor Strong | Labor | ||
Charters Towers | National | Rob Mitchell | 3.2 | -5.4 | 2.2 | Christine Scott | Labor | ||
Clayfield | Liberal | Santo Santoro | 4.5 | -6.5 | 2.0 | Liddy Clark | Labor | ||
Darling Downs | National | notional | 5.3 | -6.4 | 1.1 | Ray Hopper | Independent | ||
Gaven | National | notional | 7.0 | -14.6 | 7.6 | Robert Poole | Labor | ||
Glass House | National | notional | 4.3 | -13.9 | 9.6 | Carolyn Male | Labor | ||
Gympie | National | Len Stephan | 3.5 | -6.8 | 3.3 | Elisa Roberts | One Nation | ||
Hervey Bay | City Country Alliance1 | David Dalgleish | 4.2 | -11.8 | 7.6 | Andrew McNamara | Labor | ||
Indooroopilly | Liberal | Denver Beanland | 0.4 | -3.3 | 2.9 | Ronan Lee | Labor | ||
Ipswich West | City Country Alliance1 | Jack Paff | 4.2 | -11.5 | 7.3 | Don Livingstone | Labor | ||
Kawana | Liberal | Bruce Laming | 16.1 | -18.7 | 2.6 | Chris Cummins | Labor | ||
Mudgeeraba | Liberal | Ray Connor | 11.6 | -18.4 | 6.8 | Dianne Reilly | Labor | ||
Noosa | Liberal | Bruce Davidson | 10.4 | -11.3 | 0.9 | Cate Molloy | Labor | ||
Pumicestone | City Country Alliance1 | Bill Feldman | 0.8 | -16.9 | 16.1 | Carryn Sullivan | Labor | ||
Redlands | National | John Hegarty | 0.6 | -7.5 | 6.9 | John English | Labor | ||
Southport | National | Mick Veivers | 3.1 | -13.9 | 10.8 | Peter Lawlor | Labor | ||
Tablelands | Independent2 | Shaun Nelson | 0.2 | N/A | 13.6 | Rosa Lee Long | One Nation | ||
Thuringowa | Independent3 | Ken Turner | 5.6 | -9.2 | 3.6 | Anita Phillips | Labor | ||
Toowoomba North | National | Graham Healy | 10.0 | -11.9 | 1.9 | Kerry Shine | Labor | ||
Whitsunday | City Country Alliance1 | Harry Black | 3.2 | -12.8 | 9.6 | Jan Jarratt | Labor |
Candidates in italics did not contest their seat at this election.
1Candidates Black, Dalgleish, Feldman, Paff, and Prenzler were all elected as One Nation Party MLAs, but abandoned that party to form the City Country Alliance in December 1999.
The City Country Alliance was a short-lived Australian political party, operating exclusively in Queensland, that briefly held six Queensland state parliamentary seats. It was founded in the wake of Pauline Hanson's One Nation experiencing severe ructions in Queensland, the home state of founder Pauline Hanson.
2 Shaun Nelson was elected as a One Nation Party MLA in 1998, but left that party in February 1999 to sit as an independent.
Shaun Christopher Nelson is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2001, representing the electorate of Tablelands. He was elected as one of 11 MPs of the One Nation Party at the 1998 state election, before resigning from the party to sit as an independent in February 1999. He served out the remainder of his term before being defeated by One Nation candidate Rosa Lee Long at the 2001 election. He currently serves as a Maritime Warfare Officer in the Royal Australian Navy.
3 Ken Turner was elected as a One Nation Party MLA in 1998, but left that party in 1999 to sit as an independent.
Kenneth "Ken" Turner is a former Australian politician. He was born in Brisbane. Before his involvement in politics he was a commercial fisherman, and served in the Citizens Military Force 1961–1965. In 1998 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as a member of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, representing the seat of Thuringowa. He was appointed Spokesperson for Communication, Local Government, Planning, Regional and Rural Communities, Environment, Heritage and Natural Resources, and Primary Industries on 7 August. On 6 February 1999, together with party colleagues Dorothy Pratt and Shaun Nelson, he resigned from One Nation to sit as an independent. He was defeated by Labor's Anita Phillips in 2001. He contested Thuringowa again at the 2009 state election against sitting Labor MP Craig Wallace, but received only around 11% of the vote.
NATIONAL/LIBERAL SEATS (15) | |||
Marginal | |||
Warrego | Howard Hobbs | NAT | 0.3% v IND |
Maroochydore | Fiona Simpson | NAT | 0.8% |
Moggill | David Watson | LIB | 0.9% |
Caloundra | Joan Sheldon | LIB | 1.0% |
Keppel | Vince Lester | NAT | 1.5% |
Beaudesert | Kev Lingard | NAT | 2.0% |
Callide | Jeff Seeney | NAT | 2.3% v ONP |
Hinchinbrook | Marc Rowell | NAT | 2.8% v ONP |
Mirani | Ted Malone | NAT | 3.8% |
Robina | Bob Quinn | LIB | 4.0% |
Surfers Paradise | Rob Borbidge | NAT | 5.3% |
Fairly safe | |||
Toowoomba South | Mike Horan | NAT | 7.9% |
Cunningham | Stuart Copeland | NAT | 8.6% |
Gregory | Vaughan Johnson | NAT | 9.3% |
Safe | |||
Southern Downs | Lawrence Springborg | NAT | 16.8% |
CROSSBENCH SEATS (8) | |||
Maryborough | John Kingston | IND | 0.5% v ALP |
Darling Downs | Ray Hopper | IND | 1.1% v NAT |
Gympie | Elisa Roberts | ONP | 3.3% v ALP |
Gladstone | Liz Cunningham | IND | 3.5% v ALP |
Lockyer | Bill Flynn | ONP | 7.3% v ALP |
Tablelands | Rosa Lee Long | ONP | 13.8% v ALP |
Nanango | Dorothy Pratt | IND | 17.1% v ALP |
Nicklin | Peter Wellington | IND | 23.4% v ONP |
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