Elections
Australia’s Center-Right Wins Queensland Election, Breaks Trend
- Queensland has been governed by the Labor party since 2015
- LNP win widely seen as clearing the decks for national vote
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Queensland became Australia’s first mainland state to elect a center-right government in more than 18 months, breaking the Labor Party’s hold on power ahead of a national election due by May.
The Liberal-National Party would win at least 48 out of 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, more than the 47 needed for a majority in the state parliament, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Eleven seats were still in doubt. The Labor Party had been in office in the northeastern state since January 2015.