1992 Queensland state election

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

1992 Queensland state election

19 September 1992
All 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 45 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	91.48 ( 0.30 pp)
NAT LIB Leader Wayne Goss Rob Borbidge Joan Sheldon Party Labor National Liberal Leader since 2 March 1988[1] 11 December 1991[1] 11 November 1991[1] Leader's seat Logan Surfers Paradise Caloundra Last election 54 seats 27 seats 8 seats Seats won 54 seats 26 seats 9 seats Seat change 0 1 1 Percentage 48.73% 23.71% 20.44% Swing 1.59 0.38 0.62
Premier before election Wayne Goss Labor Elected Premier Wayne Goss Labor

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]

Key dates

Date	Event
25 August 1992	Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.[5]
29 August 1992	Close of electoral rolls.
1 September 1992	Close of nominations.
19 September 1992	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
24 September 1992	The Goss Ministry was reconstituted.
31 October 1992	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.

Results

Queensland state election, 19 September 1992[6] Legislative Assembly << 1989–1995 >>
Enrolled voters		1,951,675
Votes cast		1,785,403		Turnout	91.48%	+0.30%
Informal votes		40,242		Informal	2.25%	–0.75%
Summary of votes by party
Party		Primary votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Labor	850,480	48.73%	–1.59%	54	± 0
	Nationals	413,772	23.71%	–0.38%	26	– 1
	Liberal	356,640	20.44%	–0.62%	9	+ 1
	Confederate Action	23,510	1.35%	+1.35%	0	± 0
	Greens	11,463	0.66%	+0.33%	0	± 0
	Indigenous Peoples	6,431	0.37%	+0.37%	0	± 0
	Democrats	5,774	0.33%	–0.09%	0	± 0
	Independent	77,091	4.42%	+1.20%	0	± 0
Total		1,745,161			89
Two-party-preferred
	Labor		53.7%	-0.1%
	National/Liberal		46.3%	+0.1%

Popular vote Labor   48.73% Nationals   23.71% Liberal   20.44% Confederate Action   1.35% Greens   0.66% Indigenous Peoples   0.37% Democrats   0.33% Independents   4.42%

Seats Labor   60.67% Nationals   29.21% Liberal   10.11%

Seats changing hands

Seat	Pre-1992				Swing	Post-1992
	Party		Member	Margin		Margin	Member	Party
Broadwater		Liberal	notional - new seat	4.8	-11.7	6.9	Allan Grice	National
Burleigh		Liberal	notional - new seat	3.6	-4.7	1.1	Judy Gamin	National
Caloundra		National	notional - new seat	6.2	-8.5	2.3	Joan Sheldon	Liberal
Charters Towers		Labor	notional - new seat	1.6	-2.0	0.4	Rob Mitchell	National
Currumbin		Liberal	Trevor Coomber	0.1	-5.9	5.8	Merri Rose	Labor
Hinchinbrook **		Labor	Bill Eaton	3.0	-5.3	2.3	Marc Rowell	National
Keppel		Labor	notional - new seat	3.3	-4.7	1.4	Vince Lester	National
Maroochydore		Liberal	notional - new seat	4.1	-8.1	4.0	Fiona Simpson	National
Mooloolah		National	notional - new seat	6.5	-19.4	12.9	Bruce Laming	Liberal
Mount Ommaney		Liberal	notional - new seat	3.7	-4.9	1.2	Peter Pyke	Labor
Noosa		Labor	notional - new seat	2.4	-4.9	2.5	Bruce Davidson	Liberal
Toowoomba North		Labor	John Flynn	0.9	-1.4	0.5	Graham Healy	National

• Most seats that changed hands were new from the extensive redistribution of districts before the election.
• Members in italics did not recontest their seats.
• ** The 1991 redistribution combined the fairly safe Labor held electorate of Mourilyan with marginal National held electorate of Hinchinbrook. Based on 1989 results, Hinchinbrook has a notional seat margin of 3.0%.[7]

Post-election pendulum

LABOR SEATS (54)
Marginal
Hervey Bay	Bill Nunn	ALP	0.6%
Mount Ommaney	Peter Pyke	ALP	1.2%
Albert	John Szczerbanik	ALP	1.6%
Gladstone	Neil Bennett	ALP	2.0% v IND
Whitsunday	Lorraine Bird	ALP	2.2%
Mansfield	Laurel Power	ALP	2.6%
Mulgrave	Warren Pitt	ALP	3.2%
Maryborough	Bob Dollin	ALP	3.3%
Barron River	Lesley Clark	ALP	4.2%
Redlands	John Budd	ALP	5.2%
Sunnybank	Stephen Robertson	ALP	5.5%
Currumbin	Merri Rose	ALP	5.8%
Fairly safe
Thuringowa	Ken McElligott	ALP	7.1%
Greenslopes	Gary Fenlon	ALP	7.2%
Cleveland	Darryl Briskey	ALP	7.5%
Caboolture	Jon Sullivan	ALP	7.9%
Redcliffe	Ray Hollis	ALP	8.6%
Bundaberg	Clem Campbell	ALP	8.7%
Springwood	Molly Robson	ALP	8.7%
Mount Gravatt	Judy Spence	ALP	9.2%
Ashgrove	Jim Fouras	ALP	9.3%
Mundingburra	Ken Davies	ALP	9.4%
Safe
Waterford	Tom Barton	ALP	10.8%
Cairns	Keith De Lacy	ALP	11.1%
Chatsworth	Terry Mackenroth	ALP	11.1%
Townsville	Geoff Smith	ALP	11.2%
Chermside	Terry Sullivan	ALP	11.7%
Everton	Rod Welford	ALP	11.7%
Fitzroy	Jim Pearce	ALP	12.0%
Kallangur	Ken Hayward	ALP	12.1%
Cook	Steve Bredhauer	ALP	12.2%
Mount Coot-tha	Wendy Edmond	ALP	12.4%
Ipswich West	Don Livingstone	ALP	12.7%
Kurwongbah	Margaret Woodgate	ALP	13.1%
Rockhampton	Paul Braddy	ALP	13.1%
Yeronga	Matt Foley	ALP	13.5%
Ferny Grove	Glen Milliner	ALP	13.8%
Mackay	Ed Casey	ALP	14.2%
Capalaba	Jim Elder	ALP	14.7%
Brisbane Central	Peter Beattie	ALP	14.8%
Archerfield	Len Ardill	ALP	15.2%
Kedron	Paul Braddy	ALP	16.3%
Murrumba	Dean Wells	ALP	16.3%
Sandgate	Gordon Nuttall	ALP	16.4%
Mount Isa	Tony McGrady	ALP	17.6%
Ipswich	David Hamill	ALP	17.8%
South Brisbane	Anne Warner	ALP	18.5%
Nudgee	Ken Vaughan	ALP	18.7%
Bundamba	Bob Gibbs	ALP	19.8% v IND
Lytton	Tom Burns	ALP	19.8%
Bulimba	Pat Purcell	ALP	20.4%
Woodridge	Bill D'Arcy	ALP	25.2%
Logan	Wayne Goss	ALP	25.3%
Inala	Henry Palaszczuk	ALP	26.4%

NATIONAL/LIBERAL SEATS (35)
Marginal
Charters Towers	Rob Mitchell	NAT	0.4%
Toowoomba North	Graham Healy	NAT	0.5%
Aspley	John Goss	LIB	0.9%
Burleigh	Judy Gamin	NAT	1.1%
Keppel	Vince Lester	NAT	1.4%
Burdekin	Mark Stoneman	NAT	2.0%
Caloundra	Joan Sheldon	LIB	2.3%
Hinchinbrook	Marc Rowell	NAT	2.3%
Southport	Mick Veivers	NAT	2.3%
Noosa	Bruce Davidson	LIB	2.5%
Surfers Paradise	Rob Borbidge	NAT	2.9% v LIB
Beaudesert	Kev Lingard	NAT	3.2%
Maroochydore	Fiona Simpson	NAT	4.0%
Clayfield	Santo Santoro	LIB	4.1%
Mirani	Jim Randell	NAT	4.3%
Nerang	Ray Connor	LIB	4.8%
Fairly safe
Indooroopilly	Denver Beanland	LIB	6.4%
Broadwater	Allan Grice	NAT	6.9%
Gympie	Len Stephan	NAT	7.6%
Nicklin	Neil Turner	NAT	7.9%
Moggill	David Watson	LIB	9.1%
Burnett	Doug Slack	NAT	9.5%
Safe
Gregory	Vaughan Johnson	NAT	10.2%
Merrimac	Bob Quinn	LIB	10.5%
Toowoomba South	Mike Horan	NAT	11.2%
Warwick	Lawrence Springborg	NAT	11.4%
Mooloolah	Bruce Laming	LIB	12.9%
Warrego	Howard Hobbs	NAT	13.6%
Tablelands	Tom Gilmore	NAT	14.4%
Lockyer	Tony Fitzgerald	NAT	15.1%
Cunningham	Tony Elliott	NAT	16.4%
Crows Nest	Russell Cooper	NAT	18.6%
Barambah	Trevor Perrett	NAT	19.4%
Callide	Di McCauley	NAT	25.9% v IND
Western Downs	Brian Littleproud	NAT	26.6%

See also

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1989–1992
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1992–1995
• Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1992
• Goss Ministry

References

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