1992 Queensland state election

1992 Queensland state election
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All 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
45 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Turnout91.48 (Increase 0.30 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Wayne Goss Rob Borbidge Joan Sheldon
Party Labor National Liberal
Leader since 2 March 1988 (1988-03-02)[1] 11 December 1991 (1991-12-11)[1] 11 November 1991 (1991-11-11)[1]
Leader's seat Logan Surfers Paradise Caloundra
Last election 54 seats, 50.32% 27 seats, 24.09% 8 seats, 21.05%
Seats won 54 26 9
Seat change Steady Decrease 1 Increase 1
Popular vote 850,480 413,772 356,640
Percentage 48.73% 23.71% 20.44%
Swing Decrease 1.59 Decrease 0.38 Decrease 0.62
TPP 53.7% 46.3%
TPP swing Decrease 0.10 Increase 0.10
Premier before election

Wayne Goss
Labor

Elected Premier

Wayne Goss
Labor

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 19 September 1992 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

The Labor Party led by Wayne Goss was reelected for a second term with a strong majority government. The election effectively confirmed the status quo, although the ALP lost a small percentage of votes and four seats. Three of those were new seats which were nominally Labor following the redistribution.

This was the first election in many decades in which a zonal system of electoral representation did not exist. The previous parliament had legislated for a "one vote one value" electoral redistribution, in which almost all the 89 electoral districts were to have similar numbers of electors (within a 10% margin of the mean). The only exceptions were electorates that had areas of at least 100,000 square kilometres. The number of electors in each of those electorates was increased by 2% of the total area of the electorate expressed in square kilometres, to ensure that the number of electors in the affected electorates was within 10% of the mean enrolment. This election also saw the introduction of optional preferential voting (replacing compulsory full-preferential voting) in Queensland elections, which would remain in place until the 2016 electoral reforms of the Palaszczuk government.[2][3]

Although Labor suffered a small swing against it in north Queensland, that was slightly masked by the abolition of the zonal system.[4]

  1. ^ a b c "Queensland Parliamentary Record: Leaders, Parliamentary Parties" (PDF). Parliament of Queensland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Why Campbell Newman Advocates 'Just Vote 1'". ABC News. 17 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Antony Green - ABC News". Archived from the original on 2 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Election Preview - Queensland Votes 2012". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2020.