2020 Queensland state election

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
Registered	3,377,476 4.6%
Turnout	2,969,347 (87.92%) (0.4 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk Deb Frecklington Robbie Katter Party Labor Liberal National Katter's Australian Leader since 28 March 2012 (2012-03-28) 12 December 2017 (2017-12-12) 2 February 2015 (2015-02-02) 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 4 4 Popular vote 1,134,969 1,029,442 72,168 Percentage 39.6% 35.9% 2.5% Swing 4.1 2.2 0.2 TPP 53.2% 46.8% TPP swing 1.9 1.9   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   PHON NQF Leader No leader No leader Jason Costigan Party Greens One Nation NQ First Leader since N/A N/A 18 November 2019 Leader's seat N/A N/A Whitsunday (lost seat) Last election 1 seat, 10.0% 1 seat, 13.7% New party Seats before 1 1 1[a] Seats won 2 1 0 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 271,514 204,316 5,616 Percentage 9.5% 7.1% 0.2% Swing 0.5 6.6 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 to elect all 93 members to the 57th Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The Labor Party was returned to government for a third-term, led by incumbent premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.^[2] With 47 seats needed to form a majority government, Labor won 52 seats, including all but five in Brisbane, while the Liberal National Party won 34 seats and formed opposition. On the crossbench, Katter's Australian Party retained its 3 seats, the Queensland Greens picked up South Brisbane for a total of 2, Pauline Hanson's One Nation retained Mirani and independent Sandy Bolton retained her seat of Noosa.

Both major parties managed a small swing to them on primary votes, as a result of One Nation's vote sharply declining. On the two-party-preferred vote, Labor had a small swing to it statewide, though the party did notably lose some ground to the LNP in some key seats, including the ultra-marginal seats of Burdekin and Whitsunday, and the LNP also won both Toowoomba-based seats with increased majorities. Labor picked up five seats from the LNP, but notably sitting Deputy Premier Jackie Trad lost her seat of South Brisbane to the Greens.

At 11pm on 31 October, Liberal National Party leader Deb Frecklington conceded defeat, congratulating Palaszczuk on her victory.^[2] Frecklington initially indicated that she would stay on as party leader, but on 2 November announced that she would convene a party meeting and resign as leader.^[3] David Crisafulli won the ensuing leadership spill and was elected LNP leader on 12 November 2020.^[4]

Palaszczuk became the first female party leader to win three state elections in Australia,^[5] as well as the first Queensland Premier to increase their party's seat total across three successive elections.^[6]

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