Owing to various distractions, moves towards a merger of the Queensland Nationals and Liberals have gone under-reported on this site. This is just as well, as I might otherwise have joined the large number of writers and critics who prophesised with their pens that the move would fail. It appears instead to have built unstoppable [...]
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Newspoll: 55-45 to Labor in Queensland
Thursday, June 26, 2008 – 2:09 am
State Newspoll bonanza, episode three. The Australian reports the latest quarterly survey of Queensland state voting intention shows Labor’s lead narrowing from 60-40 to 55-45, their primary vote lead down from 50-32 to 43-38. More to follow.
UPDATE: Queensland like New South Wales has optional preferential voting, so there might be the same issue with the [...]
Galaxy: 52-48 to Labor in Queensland
Saturday, June 21, 2008 – 3:01 pm
The Courier-Mail has today produced an eyebrow-raising poll on Queensland state voting intention, conducted by Galaxy from 800 respondents. It shows Labor’s two-party lead plunging to 52-48 from 61-39 in February, with reversals for Labor of up to 10 per cent on every measure. One of the many supplementary questions is on attitudes to the [...]
Queensland redistributed
Friday, May 23, 2008 – 12:54 pm
The Electoral Commission of Queensland has unveiled proposed new boundaries for a state electoral redistribution. Eight seats have been abolished: Labor-held Fitzroy, Kurwongbah and Mount Gravatt, the Nationals seats of Charters Towers, Darling Downs and Cunningham, the Liberal seat of Robina, and the last remaining One Nation seat, Tablelands. The new seats are Buderim, Coomera, [...]
Newspoll: 60-40 to Labor in Queensland
Friday, April 4, 2008 – 1:54 am
The Australian reports Newspoll’s quarterly survey of Queensland state voting intention has Labor leading the Coalition 60-40 on two-party preferred, up from 59-41 in the October-December survey. The Liberals are down from 26 per cent to 22 per cent and the Nationals, who switched leaders from Jeff Seeney to Lawrence Springborg on January 21, are [...]
Brisbane Central by-election live
Saturday, October 13, 2007 – 6:22 pm
Vote
Swing
2PP
Grace Grace (Labor)
50.7
0.2
61.1
Anna Boccabella (Greens)
33.2
14.9
38.9
Mark A. White (Family First)
7.9
Ian Nelson (One Nation)
2.1
Erik Olaf Eriksen
3.2
Ronald Davy
2.8
COUNT
76 %
7.54pm. Wilston added. Labor wins. That’s me done for the evening.
7.43pm. Kelvin Grove added, leaving only Wilston.
7.30pm. St Pauls Terrace booth added.
7.29pm. As for turnout: 14,893 formal votes have been counted compared with 15,698 at the same booths last year.
7.26pm. New [...]
Brisbane Central by-election preview
Friday, October 12, 2007 – 5:14 am
The by-election to fill Peter Beattie’s vacancy in the state seat of Brisbane Central will be held tomorrow. With the Liberals sensibly declining to field a candidate, it is unlikely to be terribly exciting, despite inevitable wild talk about the Greens’ chances. The Nationals were at one point making noises about filling the void with [...]
Peter out
Monday, September 10, 2007 – 3:40 pm
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has announced his intention to retire as of Thursday. He will hand the reins to long-established heir presumptive Anna Bligh, who will follow Carmen Lawrence and Joan Kirner to become Australia’s third female premier. This means a by-election looms in Beattie’s seat of Brisbane Central. While this is hard to get [...]
Gaven by-election live
Saturday, April 1, 2006 – 4:10 pm
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Primary
Swing
2PP
Swing
LABOR
36.8
-10.8
46.6
-8.4
NATIONALS*
42.5
3.7
53.4
8.4
Greens
7.8
-0.1
Others
12.9
7.1
95% COUNTED
* Nationals swings compared with Liberal in 2004
Monday 4.00am. A slightly puzzling article from Jamie Walker and Emma Chalmers in the Courier-Mail (join in the fun and suggest your own alternative title for the paper in comments), which tells us that the swing "is expected to blow out from 7.5 per cent", and [...]
These foolish things
Friday, March 31, 2006 – 3:04 am
Just one more sleep until the April Fools’ Day by-election for the Queensland state seat of Gaven, which as usual will be covered live on this site shortly after polls close at 6pm local time. The campaign period has been well-served for opinion polls, with today’s effort in the Gold Coast Bulletin adding to an [...]
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