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2016 Australian federal election: Senate, Queensland Party Candidate Votes % ±% Quota: 209,475 Liberal National: 1. George Brandis (elected 1) 2. Matt Canavan (elected 4) 3. James McGrath (elected 6) 4. Ian Macdonald (elected 8) 5. Barry O'Sullivan (elected 10) 6. Joanna Lindgren 7. Dan Ryan 8. Gerard Rennick: 960,467 35.27 −6.12 Labor: 1 ...
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
The Governor may call an election earlier than scheduled if the Government does not maintain confidence, or the annual appropriation bill fails to pass. Issue of election writ – Tuesday 1 October 2024, by the Governor of Queensland. Candidate nominations period – Wednesday 2 October to Tuesday 8 October 2024 at 12pm, local time.
2019 Australian federal election: Senate, Queensland Party Candidate Votes % ±% Quota: 414,495 Liberal National: 1. Paul Scarr (elected 1) 2. Susan McDonald (elected 3) 3. Gerard Rennick (elected 5) 4. Ian Macdonald 5. Amanda Camm 6. Nicole Tobin 1,128,730 38.90 +3.63 Labor: 1. Nita Green (elected 2) 2. Chris Ketter 3. Frank Gilbert 4. Tania ...
With an odd number of seats in a half-Senate election (3 or 5), 50.1% of the vote wins a majority (2/3) or (3/5). With an even number of seats in a half-Senate election (6), 57.1% of the vote is needed to win a majority of seats (4/6). The ungrouped candidates in the far right column do not have a box above the line.
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 ...
Because all seats are contested in the same election, it is easier for smaller parties to win seats under the single transferable vote system: the quota for the election of each senator in each Australian state in a full Senate election is 7.69% of the vote, while in a normal half-Senate election the quota is 14.28%. [60]
The 2012 election saw the Liberal National Party defeat Labor in one of the biggest landslides in Australian history, winning 49.65% of the primary vote and 78 of 89 seats, leaving the ALP with seven seats (26.66% of the primary vote), the newly formed Katter's Australian Party winning two seats, and the remaining seats won by independents.