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The Australian state of Queensland is divided into 30 electoral divisions for the purposes of electing the Australian House of Representatives. At the 2022 federal election, the Liberal National Party of Queensland won 21 seats, the Australian Labor Party won 5 seats, the Greens won 3 seats, Katter's Australian Party won 1 seat. [1]
The Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ) is established under the Electoral Act 1992 as an independent statutory authority, responsible for the impartial conduct of state and local government elections in Queensland.
2024 Queensland state election: Algester [4]; Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labor: Leeanne Enoch: 15,463 45.81 −13.11 Liberal National: Jitendra Prasad 10,871 32.21
Queensland has compulsory voting and uses full-preference preferential voting for single-member electorates. The election is conducted by the Electoral Commission of Queensland. The party or coalition that wins the majority of seats (at least 47) forms the government.
2024 Queensland local elections: Paddington Ward [26] [27] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal National: Clare Jenkinson 12,090 43.86 −1.64 Greens: Seal Chong Wah: 10,863 39.41 +1.11 Labor: Sún Etheridge 4,613 16.73 +0.53 Total formal votes 27,566 98.57 Informal votes 400 1.43 Turnout: 27,966 83.82 Two-candidate-preferred result Greens: Seal ...
Electoral and Administrative Review Commission; Electoral Commission of Queensland; Q. 2007 Queensland local government area amalgamation plebiscites
The Electoral Districts Act (1872) resulted in 42 one-member electorates for the 1873 election, while in 1875 the Cook District Representation Act added the Electoral district of Cook. [1] [2] Four electorates were renamed: Hamlet of Fortitude Valley became Fortitude Valley; Town of Brisbane became Brisbane City; Town of Ipswich became Ipswich
Queensland is a conservative state federally (despite having an incumbent Labor government) and Labor has only won Queensland's two-party-preferred vote in three of the 21 federal elections since 1949: 1951, 1990 and 2007. [31] In 2007, the Labor Party had a leader from Queensland, Kevin Rudd. Labor did, however, increase both its first ...