1974 Queensland state election

Queensland state election, 1974

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7 December 1974 (1974-12-07)

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All 82 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

	First party	Second party

Leader	Joh Bjelke-Petersen	Perc Tucker
Party	National/Liberal coalition	Labor
Leader since	8 August 1968	1 July 1974 (1974-07-01)
Leader's seat	Barambah	Townsville West (lost seat)
Last election	47 seats	33 seats
Seats won	69 seats	11 seats
Seat change	22	22
Percentage	58.97%	36.03%
Swing	16.75	10.72

Premier before election

Joh Bjelke-Petersen
National/Liberal coalition

Elected Premier

Joh Bjelke-Petersen
National/Liberal coalition

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 7 December 1974 to elect the 82 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

The National-Liberal Coalition won a third consecutive victory under Joh Bjelke-Petersen, and the seventh consecutive victory for the National Party in Queensland (which had renamed itself from the Country Party since the last election) since it won government in 1957. The Australian Labor Party lost two-thirds of its seats, including that of leader Perc Tucker--its worst showing in an election until 2012.

Labor was cut down to only 11 seats, leading observers to call Labor's caucus a "cricket team." William Bowe of Crikey wrote that for years, this election stood as "the gold standard for Australian election massacres."

Queensland state election, 7 December 1974
Legislative Assembly
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