2009 Queensland state election
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The2009 Queensland state electionwas held on 21 March 2009 to elect all 89 members of theLegislative Assembly,aunicameral parliament.
The election saw the incumbentLaborgovernment led byPremierAnna Blighdefeat theLiberal National Party of Queenslandled byOpposition LeaderLawrence Springborg,and gain a fifth consecutive term in office for her party. Bligh thus became the first female Premier of any Australian State elected in her own right.[1]
The 2009 election marked the eighth consecutive victory of Labor in a general election since 1989, although it was out of office between 1996 and 1998 as a direct result of the1996 Mundingburra by-election.
Background[edit]
TheLabor Party,led byPremierAnna Bligh,and theLNP,led byOpposition LeaderLawrence Springborg,were the two main parties in Queensland at the election. It was the first election contested by theLNPfollowing its creation with the merger of theNationalandLiberalparties. At the previous election, Labor won 59 seats, the Nationals won 17 seats, the Liberals won eight seats, One Nation won one seat, and independents won four seats. Former Labor MPRonan Leejoined the Greens in 2008, thus becoming their parliamentary leader. Lee lost his seat at the election.[2]
A redistribution saw Labor notionally pick up three seats. Therefore, the LNP notionally needed to pick up 22 seats rather than 20 seats to form amajority government,which equated to an unchanged uniform 8.3 percenttwo party preferredswing.[3]
Former PremierPeter Beattieresigned in September 2007, which triggered theOctober 2007 Brisbane Central by-election.
Key dates[edit]
Date | Event |
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23 February 2009 | Writs were issued by theGovernorto proceed with an election.[4] |
28 February 2009 | Close of electoral rolls |
3 March 2009 | Close of nominations |
21 March 2009 | Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm |
26 March 2009 | TheBligh Ministrywas reconstituted[5] |
7 April 2009 | The writ was returned and the results formally declared |
12 April 2009 | 53rd Parliament convened |
Electoral redistribution[edit]
A redistribution of electoral boundaries occurred in 2008.
The electorates ofCharters Towers,Cunningham,Darling Downs,Fitzroy,Kurwongbah,Mount Gravatt,Robina,andTablelandswere abolished.
The electorates ofBuderim,Condamine,Coomera,Dalrymple,Mermaid Beach,Morayfield,Pine Rivers,andSunnybankwere created.
The redistribution merged Charters Towers with Tablelands to create Dalrymple, Fitzroy into Mirani, and Cunningham with Darling Downs to create Condamine, all in regional Queensland. Buderim was created on the Sunshine Coast, Morayfield in the corridor north of Brisbane, and Coomera was created on the Gold Coast. Kurwongbah was renamed Pine Rivers, Mount Gravatt was renamed Sunnybank, and Robina was renamed Mermaid Beach. Burdekin, Clayfield, and Mirani notionally became Labor-held, while Glass House notionally became National-held.
The changes resulted in 62 notionally Labor-held seats, 8 notionally Liberal-held seats, 15 notionally National-held seats, and 4 notionally Independent-held seats.
Results[edit]
Queensland state election, 21 March 2009[6] | ||||||
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Enrolled voters | 2,660,940 | |||||
Votes cast | 2,419,559 | Turnout | 90.93 | +0.46 | ||
Informal votes | 46,908 | Informal | 1.94 | –0.14 | ||
Summary of votes by party | ||||||
Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
Labor | 1,002,415 | 42.25 | –4.67 | 51 | –8 | |
Liberal National | 987,018 | 41.60 | +3.68 | 34 | +9 | |
Greens | 198,475 | 8.37 | +0.38 | 0 | ±0 | |
DS4SEQ | 22,170 | 0.93 | +0.93 | 0 | ±0 | |
Family First | 19,379 | 0.82 | –1.07 | 0 | ±0 | |
One Nation | 9,038 | 0.38 | –0.22 | 0 | –1 | |
Independent | 134,156 | 5.65 | +0.97 | 4 | ±0 | |
Total | 2,372,651 | 89 | ||||
Two-party-preferred | ||||||
Labor | 50.9 | −4.1 | ||||
Liberal National | 49.1 | +4.1 | ||||
* The two-party preferred summary is an estimate byAntony Greenusing a methodology by Malcolm Mackerras. |
Seats changing hands[edit]
Seat | 2008 Redistribution | Swing | 2009 Election | ||||||
Party | Member | Margin | Margin | Member | Party | ||||
Aspley | Labor | Bonny Barry | 3.0 | -7.46 | 4.46 | Tracy Davis | Liberal National | ||
Burdekin | Labor | notional | 0.9 | -4.05 | 3.15 | Rosemary Menkens | Liberal National | ||
Clayfield | Labor | notional | 0.3 | -6.14 | 5.84 | Tim Nicholls | Liberal National | ||
Cleveland | Labor | Phil Weightman | 1.2 | -1.48 | 0.28 | Mark Robinson | Liberal National | ||
Coomera | Labor | notional | 8.3 | -10.21 | 1.91 | Michael Crandon | Liberal National | ||
Gaven | Labor | Phil Gray | 3.2 | -3.92 | 0.72 | Alex Douglas | Liberal National | ||
Hervey Bay | Labor | Andrew McNamara | 2.1 | -8.60 | 6.50 | Ted Sorensen | Liberal National | ||
Indooroopilly | Labor | Ronan Lee¹ | 2.7 | -8.57 | 5.87 | Scott Emerson | Liberal National | ||
Mirani | Labor | Jim Pearce | 1.2 | -1.79 | 0.59 | Ted Malone | Liberal National | ||
Mudgeeraba | Labor | Dianne Reilly | 2.7 | -6.62 | 3.92 | Ros Bates | Liberal National | ||
Redlands | Labor | John English | 6.7 | -6.77 | 0.07 | Peter Dowling | Liberal National |
- Members listed in italics did not contest their seat at this election.
- ¹ Ronan Lee was elected as a member of the Labor Party, but resigned and joined the Greens.
- The Liberal National Party retained the seat of Glass House which had a notional Liberal National margin.
Post-election pendulum[edit]
Subsequent changes[edit]
- On 5 May 2010,Aidan McLindon(Beaudesert) andRob Messenger(Burnett) resigned from the Liberal National Party. On 11 October 2011, Aidan McLindon joinedKatter's Australian Party.
- On 31 October 2011,Shane Knuth(Dalrymple) resigned from the Liberal National Party and joined theKatter's Australian Party.
Polling[edit]
Newspollpolling was conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas.Sampling sizesusually consist of around 1000 electors, with the declaredmargin of errorat around ±3 percent.
Date | Labor Bligh |
Coalition/LNP Springborg |
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18 – 19 Mar 2009 | 53% | 33% |
27 Feb – 8 Mar 2009 | 48% | 34% |
Jan – Feb 2009 | 48% | 31% |
Oct – Dec 2008 | 49% | 30% |
Jul – Sep 2008 | 53% | 27% |
Apr – Jun 2008 | 60% | 24% |
Jan – Mar 2008 | 64% | 18% |
Oct – Dec 2007 | 66% | 11%2 |
Jul – Sep 2007 | 54%1 | 25%2 |
Apr – Jun 2007 | 54%1 | 19%2 |
Pre 2006 election | 58%1 | 28% |
Pre 2004 election | 62%1 | 22% |
Pollingconducted byNewspolland published inThe Australian. ^ Remainder were "uncommitted" to either leader. 1Peter Beattie,2Jeff Seeney |
Political parties | Two party preferred | |||||||||
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Dates | ALP | Lib | Nat | LNP | Grn | FFP | Oth | ALP | LNP | |
18 – 19 Mar 2009 | 42% | 42% | 7% | 0.5% | 8% | 49.9% | 50.1% | |||
27 Feb – 8 Mar 2009 | 41% | 43% | 8% | <0.5% | 8% | 49% | 51% | |||
Jan – Feb 2009 | 42% | 41% | 7% | <0.5% | 10% | 53% | 47% | |||
Oct – Dec 2008 | 45% | 37% | 8% | <0.5% | 10% | 57% | 43% | |||
Jul – Sep 2008 | 38% | 41% | 9% | 1% | 11% | 51% | 49% | |||
Apr – Jun 2008 | 43% | 26% | 12% | 38% | 10% | <0.5% | 9% | 55% | 45% | |
Jan – Mar 2008 | 50% | 22% | 10% | 32% | 8% | <0.5% | 10% | 60% | 40% | |
Oct – Dec 2007 | 50% | 26% | 9% | 35% | 6% | 1% | 8% | 59% | 41% | |
Jul – Sep 2007 | 50% | 21% | 12% | 33% | 5% | 2% | 10% | 59% | 41% | |
Apr – Jun 2007 | 51% | 20% | 11% | 31% | 6% | 1% | 11% | 61% | 39% | |
2006 election | 46.9% | 20.1% | 17.8% | 37.9% | 8.0% | 1.9% | 5.3% | 55.0% | 45.0% | |
6 – 7 Sep 2006 | 48% | 21% | 17% | 38% | 4% | 1% | 9% | 55% | 45% | |
2004 election | 47% | 18.5% | 17% | 35.5% | 6.7% | 4.9% | 5.9% | 55.5% | 44.5% | |
Pollingconducted byNewspolland published inThe Australian. |
See also[edit]
- Candidates of the Queensland state election, 2009
- Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 2006–2009
- Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 2009–2012
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- ^"Queensland elects female premier".BBC News Online.21 March 2009.
- ^"Qld Labor MP jumps ship to Greens".ABC News.5 October 2008.Retrieved9 August2018.
- ^"2008 QLD redistribution".ABC. 21 March 2009.Retrieved25 January2012.
- ^"Election Timetable: 2009 State General Election".Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived fromthe originalon 17 March 2012.
- ^Queensland,Gazette: ExtraordinaryArchivedMarch 17, 2012, at theWayback Machine,No 71, 26 March 2009, 1307
- ^ECQ."Parliament of Queensland, Assembly election, 21 March 2009".Archived fromthe originalon 26 February 2011.