Queensland state election, 2017

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Queensland state election, 2017
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All 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
47 Assembly seats are needed for a majority
Opinion polls

 First partySecond party
  Annastacia Palaszczuk 2016.jpg Tim Nicholls CEO Sleepout 2011.jpg
Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk Tim Nicholls
Party Labor Liberal National
Leader since28 March 2012 (2012-03-28)6 May 2016 (2016-05-06)
Leader's seat Inala Clayfield
Last election44 seats42 seats
Seats won48 seats39 seats
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 4Decrease2.svg 3
Popular vote957,890911,019
Percentage35.43%33.69%
SwingDecrease2.svg2.05Decrease2.svg7.63
TPP 51.2%48.8%
TPP swingIncrease2.svg0.1%Decrease2.svg0.1%
 Third partyFourth party
  Robbie Katter headshot.png Steve Dickson 2014 (cropped).jpg
Leader Robbie Katter Steve Dickson
Party Katter's Australian One Nation
Leader since2 February 2015 (2015-02-02)23 January 2017 (2017-01-23)
Leader's seat Traeger Buderim (lost seat)
Last election2 seats0 seats
Seats won3 seats1 seat
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1Steady2.svg 0
Popular vote62,613371,193
Percentage2.32%13.73%
SwingIncrease2.svg0.39Increase2.svg12.81
 Fifth party
  Michael Berkman MP.jpg
Leader Michael Berkman
Party Greens
Leader since25 November 2017 (2017-11-25)
Leader's seat Maiwar (won seat)
Last election0 seats
Seats won1 seat
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1
Popular vote270,263
Percentage10.00%
SwingIncrease2.svg1.57
2017 Queensland state election map.svg
Results in each electoral district.
Premier before election

Annastacia Palaszczuk
Labor

Elected Premier

Annastacia Palaszczuk
Labor

The 2017 Queensland state election was held on 25 November 2017 to elect all 93 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, the unicameral Parliament of Queensland. [1] [2]

Queensland North-east state of Australia

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).

Legislative Assembly of Queensland Chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland

The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held every four years. Voting is by the full-preferential voting form of the alternative vote system. The Assembly has 93 members, who have used the letters MP after their names since 2000.

Parliament of Queensland Legislature of Queensland, Australia

The Parliament of Queensland is the legislature of Queensland, Australia. According to the state's constitution, the Parliament consists of the Queen and the Legislative Assembly. It is the only unicameral state parliament in the country. The upper chamber, the Legislative Council, was abolished in 1922. The Legislative Assembly sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Brisbane.

Contents

The first-term incumbent Labor government, led by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, won a second term in government. They were challenged by the Liberal National opposition, led by Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls and minor parties One Nation, Katter's Australian Party and the Greens.

Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) State branch of the Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party , commonly known as Queensland Labor is the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party.

Premier of Queensland head of government for the state of Queensland, Australia

The Premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.

Annastacia Palaszczuk Australian politician

Annastacia Palaszczuk is an Australian politician and 39th Premier of Queensland, serving since the 2015 election. She has been a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland since the 2006 election, representing the electorate of Inala. She held various ministerial portfolios in the Bligh Labor government from 2009. Following Labor's defeat in the 2012 election, Palaszczuk succeeded Bligh as leader of Queensland Labor. After the defeat of the Newman LNP government in 2015, Palaszczuk became the first woman in Australia to become Premier of a state from Opposition. Her first ministry was majority female, a first in Australia.

The 2015 election outcome had delivered a hung parliament with 44 seats to the Labor opposition, 42 seats to the one-term Liberal National government, and three to the crossbench including two to Katter's Australian Party. Just one seat short of majority government, Labor was able to form minority government with confidence and supply support from sole independent MP Peter Wellington, while retaining the right to otherwise vote on conscience. During the parliamentary term, Labor MPs Billy Gordon and Rob Pyne became independent MPs, however they both indicated they would provide confidence and supply support for the government. [3] [4]

A hung parliament is a term used in legislatures under the Westminster system to describe a situation in which no particular political party or pre-existing coalition has an absolute majority of legislators in a parliament or other legislature. This situation is also known, albeit less commonly, as a balanced parliament, or as a legislature under no overall control, and can result in a minority government. The term is not relevant in multi-party systems where it is rare for a single party to hold a majority.

A crossbencher is an independent or minor party member of some legislatures, such as the British House of Lords and the Parliament of Australia. They take their name from the crossbenches, between and perpendicular to the government and opposition benches, where crossbenchers sit in the chamber.

Amendments to electoral laws increased the number of seats by four from 89 to 93 and changed the optional preferential voting system to compulsory full-preferential voting. [5] A successful 2016 referendum also replaced the state's unfixed maximum three-year terms with fixed four-year terms, but these will not apply until the 2020 election. [6] [7]

Optional preferential voting (OPV) is a type of preferential voting system under which voters indicate the order of their preferences by numbers. Full-preferential voting requires a preference to be indicated for each candidate. Under OPV voters may choose to mark a preference for as many candidates as they want. Although complete numbering is not required under OPV, single-preference voters may be required to use a '1' rather than a tick or cross. Some jurisdictions allow ticks or crosses as the voter's intention is clear. Some jurisdictions use semi-optional preferential voting, when a minimum number of preferences are required to be expressed.

The day after the election, ABC election analyst Antony Green predicted that Labor would win up to 48 seats and was likely to form government in its own right. [8] By 6 December, several news agencies reported that Labor had successfully won a majority of seats in the Parliament. [9] [10] [11]

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's national broadcaster founded in 1929. It is currently principally funded by direct grants from the Australian government, but is expressly independent of government and partisan politics. The ABC plays a leading role in journalistic independence and is fundamental in the history of broadcasting in Australia.

Antony John Green is an Australian psephologist and commentator. He is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's election analyst.

With the redistribution increasing the size of parliament from 89 seats to 93 seats, Labor increased its representation by a net seven seats to a total of 48 seats, an increase of four since the last election and a notional increase of one since the redistribution, allowing it to form government in its own right by two seats. The Liberal National opposition decreased their representation by a net three seats to a total of 39 seats, a decrease of two seats since the last election and a notional decrease of five since the redistribution. On the crossbench, Katter's Australian Party won three seats, an increase of one since the last election and a notional increase of two since the redistribution, one new independent candidate won a seat while all the incumbent independents lost their seats. One Nation won its first seat since 2009 and the Greens won a seat at a state election for the first time. [12]

On 8 December 2017, Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls conceded defeat and announced he would step down as leader of the party. [13] Later that day, Palaszczuk visited Government House and was invited to form a majority government by the Governor. [14] The Second Palaszczuk Ministry was subsequently sworn in by the Governor on 12 December 2017. [15]

This marked the ninth time in the last ten elections that Queensland Labor has won government; it won eight consecutive election victories from 1989 to 2009, and was only out of government from 1996 to 1998 when Labor lost its parliamentary majority as well as from 2012 to 2015 following the Liberal National Party's 2012 landslide win.

Results

Queensland state election, 25 November 2017 [16] [11]
Legislative Assembly
<< 2015–

Enrolled voters3,229,536
Votes cast2,826,613 Turnout 87.52−2.37
Informal votes122,672Informal4.34+2.23
Summary of votes by party
PartyPrimary votes%SwingSeatsChange
  Labor 957,89035.43–2.0548+4
  Liberal National 911,01933.69–7.6339−3
  One Nation 371,19313.73+12.811+1
  Greens 270,26310.00+1.571+1
  Katter's Australian 62,6132.32+0.393+1
  Consumer Rights 7,1670.27+0.270±0
  Independent 123,7964.58+0.951±0
Total2,703,941  93 
Two-party-preferred
  Labor 51.2+0.1
  Liberal National 48.8−0.1

Independent: Sandy Bolton (Noosa)

Seats changing hands

SeatPre-electionSwingPost-election [17]
PartyMemberMargin*MarginMemberParty
Aspley  Liberal National Tracy Davis 3.24.31.2 Bart Mellish Labor 
Buderim  One Nation Steve Dickson 11.8 (LNP)−0.411.4 Brent Mickelberg Liberal National 
Bundaberg Labor Leanne Donaldson 0.54.74.2 David Batt Liberal National 
Cairns  Independent Rob Pyne 7.5 (ALP)−4.13.4 Michael Healy Labor 
Cook  Independent Billy Gordon 6.8 (ALP)−0.95.8 Cynthia Lui Labor 
Gaven  Liberal National Sid Cramp 2.83.50.7 Meaghan Scanlon Labor 
Hinchinbrook  Liberal National Andrew Cripps 3.411.07.6 Nick Dametto Katter
Maiwar  Liberal National Scott Emerson 3.04.61.6 Michael Berkman Greens
Mirani  Labor Jim Pearce 3.88.04.2 Stephen Andrew One Nation 
Nicklin  Independent Peter Wellington N/AN/A5.3 Marty Hunt Liberal National 
Noosa  Liberal National Glen Elmes 6.618.411.5 Sandy Bolton Independent 
Pumicestone  Independent Rick Williams 0.1 (LNP)0.91.0 Simone Wilson Liberal National 
Redlands  Liberal National Matt McEachan 1.24.33.1 Kim Richards Labor 
1 Steve Dickson won the seat of Buderim in 2009 as a LNP member, but quit in January 2017 to sit as a One Nation member.
2 Rob Pyne won the seat of Cairns in 2015 as a Labor member, but quit in March 2016 to sit as an independent.
3 Billy Gordon won the seat of Cook in 2015 as a Labor member, but was expelled from the party in March 2015 and sat as an independent.
4 Rick Williams won the seat of Pumicestone in 2015 as a Labor member, but resigned following his dis-endorsement in October 2017.
* Notional margins were calculated by the ABC's election analyst Antony Green. Members listed in italics retired at this election.

The seats of Burdekin, Mansfield, and Mount Ommaney were won by the LNP at the 2015 election, but redistributions in 2016 made them notionally Labor seats.

Seat2015 Election2016 RedistributionSwing2017 Election
PartyMemberMarginPartyMemberMargin*MarginMemberParty
Burdekin  Liberal National Dale Last 2.9 LaborNotional1.4−2.20.8 Dale Last Liberal National 
Mansfield  Liberal National Ian Walker 5.5LaborNotional0.80.81.6 Corrine McMillan Labor
Mount Ommaney  Liberal National Tarnya Smith 0.2LaborNotional1.04.85.8 Jess Pugh Labor
* Notional margins were calculated by the ABC's election analyst Antony Green.

The 2017 election saw the ALP continue its Queensland general election streak of successes, which it had managed since 1989, with the notable exception of the 2012 LNP landslide. Katter's Australia Party, by winning a third seat in Hinchinbrook, achieved its largest swag of seats, since its inception in 2011. The Greens party recorded its highest vote in a Queensland state election, polling double figures (10.0%) for the first time and winning its first Queensland seat at an election, Maiwar (they had previously held Indooroopilly when Labor MP Ronan Lee defected to the Greens in 2008). One Nation polled a significant 13.7% of the vote and won its first seat in almost 9 years. However the party lost its state leader, Steve Dickson (Buderim), and its tally of a single seat fell well below expectations. The election gave the LNP the least cause to rejoice: it performed very poorly in South-East Queensland as well as in the north of the state; the party suffered a 7.6% general swing against it, and when combined with the negative 8.3% swing from the previous election, the LNP has suffered a 16% swing against it in less than 6 years; the party's overall seat tally also fell from the last election (from 42 to 39 seats), despite the increase in the size of the new parliament from 89 to 93 seats; LNP leader, Tim Nicholls suffered a 4.8% personal swing against him in his own seat of Clayfield, and indicated he would stand down as LNP leader, two weeks after the election.

Milestones

This election resulted in a number of historical milestones being achieved for the representation in the Queensland Parliament. These include:

Political donations

Prior to the election, the Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia used $550,000 to launch an advertising campaign, named Flick’em, in an effort to urge voters to put both major parties last in ballot paper preferences. This campaign boosted votes for Pauline Hanson's One Nation and the Katter's Australian Party and achieved lowest major party votes in QLD history. [22]

The Firearm Owners United which is a new gun rights group which also in 2017 made its first financial contribution to a campaign during the Queensland state election, donating $1,000 to Pauline Hanson's One Nation party and Katter's Australian Party. [23]

Background

Previous election

At the 2015 election, Labor won 44 seats, the most of all parties, but short by one of commanding a majority in the Legislative Assembly. The Liberal National Party, despite winning a record majority of 78 at the previous election, won 42 seats. Katter's Australian Party won two seats, and the independent member for Nicklin, Wellington, retained his seat. [24]

Wellington gave confidence and supply support to Labor to form government, giving it the majority of 45 out of 89 seats in parliament, and consequently the previous Liberal National government under the leadership of Campbell Newman, who lost his seat of Ashgrove, lost office after one term.

Calling of election

After Labor's retraction of endorsement for MP Rick Williams on 27 October 2017, the party's seat count dropped to 41, equalling that of the LNP. Several media sources reported that Premier Palaszczuk would call a snap election. [25] [26] On 29 October Palaszczuk asked the Acting Governor Catherine Holmes to dissolve parliament and a writ was issued for a 25 November state election. [27] [28]

Pre-election pendulum

Following the 2015 election, Cook MP Billy Gordon was expelled from the Labor Party. He was later joined on the crossbench by two other Labor MPs, Rob Pyne (Cairns) and Rick Williams (Pumicestone). LNP MP Steve Dickson also joined the crossbench following his defection to One Nation. The final seat tally at dissolution was 41 Labor, 41 LNP, 2 KAP, 1 PHON and 4 IND.

Redistribution

With the expansion of the Assembly from 89 to 93 seats, a redistribution of district boundaries was finalised on 26 May 2017. [29]

A number of seats were renamed, either to reflect boundary changes or to honour distinguished Queenslanders: Ashgrove became Cooper, Beaudesert became Scenic Rim, Brisbane Central became McConnel, Cleveland became Oodgeroo, Indooroopilly became Maiwar, Kallangur became Kurwongbah, Mount Isa became Traeger, Sunnybank became Toohey, and Yeerongpilly became Miller. [30]

The LNP-held seat of Albert, the KAP-held seat of Dalrymple and the Labor-held seat of Mount Coot-tha were abolished, while a number of new seats were created: Bancroft (notionally Labor); Bonney (notionally LNP); Hill (notionally KAP); Jordan (notionally Labor); Macalister (notionally Labor); Ninderry (notionally LNP); and Theodore (notionally LNP). Additionally, the LNP-held seats of Mansfield and Mount Ommaney became notionally Labor, while the Labor-held seat of Pumicestone became notionally LNP. [30]

Antony Green calculated a notional seat tally of 47 Labor, 44 LNP, 1 KAP and 1 independent under the new boundaries. [30]

Voting method

Having used optional preferential voting since 1992, [31] in 2016 the Queensland Parliament reintroduced compulsory preferential voting, which requires voters to allocate preferences to all candidates running in their single-member electorate. [5] The election was conducted by the Electoral Commission of Queensland, an independent body answerable to Parliament.

Queensland had a maximum parliamentary term of three years, measured from the deadline set for the return of the electoral writs, but as a result of the 2016 term length referendum Queensland will have fixed four-year terms from 2020 onwards. The previous state election was held on 31 January 2015.

Date

Following the successful 2016 referendum to introduce four-year fixed-term elections, this was the last Queensland election where the date of the election could be chosen at the serving Premier's discretion. [32]

Section 84 of the Electoral Act 1992 states that an election must be held on a Saturday, and that the election campaign must run for a minimum of 26 or a maximum of 56 days following the issue of the writs including the day the writ drops and polling day. Five to seven days following the issue of the writs, the electoral roll is closed, which gives voters a final opportunity to enrol or to notify the Electoral Commission of Queensland of any changes in their place of residence. [33]

The Constitution (Fixed Term Parliament) Amendment Act 2015, [34] which amends the Constitution of Queensland to provide for state elections on the fourth Saturday in October every four years, does not come into effect until the next election. Therefore, this is the last election to which section 2 of the Constitution Act Amendment Act 1890 applies before its repeal. [35] It provides that the Legislative Assembly continues for no more than three years from the day set for the return of writs for the previous election, after which time the Legislative Assembly expires. [36]

The day set for the return of writs for the 2015 election was 16 February 2015, but the deadline appointed in the writ for its return was Wednesday 11 March 2015. [6] [37] The Electoral Act requires the Governor to issue writs for a general election no more than four days after the Legislative Assembly is dissolved or expires. [33] :§78(2) The last possible day for the next election was therefore a Saturday not more than 56 days beyond four days after the expiry of the Legislative Assembly on 11 March 2018, namely 5 May 2018. [6] [32]

Palaszczuk faced constant media questions during 2017 about whether she would call an early election. [32] [38] She stated that it was her intention to hold it in 2018, and that it would take something "extraordinary" for it to be held in 2017. Following Agriculture Minister Bill Byrne's resignation on health grounds and the disendorsement of Pumicestone MP Rick Williams, [39] on Sunday 29 October 2017, she announced the election would be held on 25 November 2017. [40] Pauline Hanson described this as a "cowardly" move, given that she was overseas on a federal parliamentary trip and would be delayed in starting her One Nation party's campaign. [40]

Because the election was held in 2017, it means that the fixed date for the next state election will be 31 October 2020. [6] Had it been held in 2018, the next fixed election date would have been 30 October 2021. [6]

Key dates

DateEvent
29 October 2017 Writ of election issued by the Acting Governor [41]
3 November 2017Close of electoral rolls
7 November 2017Close of nominations
25 November 2017Polling day, between the hours of 8 am and 6 pm
5 December 2017Cut off for the return of postal ballot papers
8 December 2017Election results declared and writ returned
12 December 2017 Second Palaszczuk Ministry sworn in
13 February 201856th Parliament convened

Contesting parties

The ALP's Queensland branch and the LNP are two of six parties registered with the Electoral Commission of Queensland by October 2017, alongside the Queensland Greens, the Queensland division of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, Katter's Australian Party, and Civil Liberties, Consumer Rights, No-Tolls. [42] Queensland's two-party dominance was threatened by the resurgence of One Nation, given former LNP MP Steve Dickson's defection to become One Nation's state leader in January 2017 and the high-profile candidacy of recently-disqualified Senator Malcolm Roberts, [43] and the record strength of the Greens in several urban seats bolstered by Brisbane's first Green councillor Jonathan Sri being elected in 2016. [44]

Preferences

The ALP and The Greens pledged to place One Nation candidates last on their respective party How-To-Vote cards. Both parties also placed each other ahead of the LNP on their cards. Katter's Australia Party exchanged preferences with One Nation in the seats they both contested. The LNP placed Greens candidates below ALP candidates, and placed One Nation candidates ahead of the ALP in 52 of the 61 seats One Nation was contesting, the exceptions being in Buderim, Logan, Mudgeeraba, Nicklin, Coomera, Scenic Rim, Stretton, Toohey and Thuringowa. One Nation, with a few notable exceptions, placed all ALP and LNP sitting MPs last. One Nation also made an agreement with Katter's Australia Party, not to challenge the two sitting KAP MPs in their respective seats.

Retiring MPs

The following Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly have announced their intention to not contest the 2017 state election:

Labor

Liberal National Party

Independent

Opinion polling

Several research, media and polling firms conduct opinion polls during the parliamentary term and prior to the state election in relation to voting. Most firms use the flow of preferences at the previous election to determine the two-party-preferred vote; others ask respondents to nominate preferences.

Legislative Assembly polling
DateFirmPrimary vote TPP vote
ALPLNPGreen ON OtherALPLNP
21–24 November 2017Newspoll [52] 36%34%10%13%7%52.5%47.5%
24 November 2017Galaxy [53] 37%35%9%12%7%52%48%
20 November 2017ReachTEL [54] 34%30%10%17%9%51%49%
13 November 2017ReachTEL [55] 30.4%30.8%8.1%16.4%–48%52%
1–2 November 2017Galaxy [56] 35%32%9%18%6%52%48%
17 October 2017Newspoll [57] 37%34%8%16%5%52%48%
28 September 2017ReachTEL [58] 32.1%30.6%7.5%18.1%7.7%48%52%
July–Sep 2017Newspoll [59] 37%34%8%15%6%53%47%
2–3 August 2017Galaxy [60] 35%36%7%15%7%51%49%
June 2017ReachTEL [61] 31.9%35.3%9.4%17%6.4%49%51%
26–27 April 2017Galaxy [62] 36%34%7%17%6%52%48%
February 2017ReachTEL [63] 30.9%33.2%7%21.3%7.6%47%53%
February 2017Galaxy [63] 31%33%8%23%5%51%49%
November 2016Galaxy [64] 35%37%8%16%4%51%49%
October 2016Roy Morgan [65] 35.5%33.5%12%10.5%8.5%52%48%
August 2016Roy Morgan [66] 36.5%38.5%9.5%8.5%7%50%50%
May–June 2016Newspoll [67] 38%40%–––51%49%
May 2016Morgan [68] 35.5%40.5%10.5%–13.5%50%50%
10–11 May 2016Galaxy [69] 36%44%9%–11%48%52%
26 April 2016ReachTEL [70] 36.9%42.8%10.8%–9.5%48%52%
March 2016Roy Morgan [71] 37.5%40%12.5%–9.5%52%48%
10–11 February 2016Galaxy [72] 37%43%9%–11%48%52%
Jan–Feb 2016Roy Morgan [73] 36.5%45.5%9%–9%48%52%
December 2015Newspoll [74] 41%39%8%–12%52%48%
17–18 November 2015Galaxy [72] 42%37%9%–12%49%51%
16 October 2015Morgan [75] 34.5%42%11.5%–12%49%51%
Sep 2015Newspoll [76] 41%38%9%–12%53%47%
28–31 Aug 2015Morgan [77] 38.5%41.5%12%–8%52%48%
19–20 Aug 2015Galaxy [78] 40%39%10%–11%52%48%
19–21 Jun 2015Morgan [79] 39.5%42%9.5%–9%51.5%48.5%
22–24 May 2015Morgan [80] 34%44%11%–1%48%52%
22 May 2015ReachTEL [81] 37.6%45.6%9.4%–7.4%48%52%
19–20 May 2015Galaxy [82] 40%39%9%–12%52%47%
10–12 Apr 2015Morgan [83] 40%40.5%9.5%–10%52.5%47.5%
8–9 Apr 2015Galaxy [82] 39%42%7%–12%50%50%
31 January 2015 election 37.5%41.3%8.4%0.9%12.8%51.1%48.9%
26–29 Jan 2015Newspoll [84] 37%41%6%–14%48%52%
9–26 Jan 2015Essential [85] 38%39%7%–16%50%50%
16–18 Jan 2015Morgan [86] 37%39.5%10%–13.5%49.5%50.5%

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