1986 Queensland state election

Queensland state election, 1986

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1 November 1986 (1986-11-01)

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All 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Joh Bjelke-Petersen	Nev Warburton	William Knox
Party	National	Labor	Liberal
Leader since	8 August 1968	29 August 1984 (1984-08-29)	1983
Leader's seat	Barambah	Sandgate	Nundah
Last election	41 seats	32 seats	8 seats
Seats won	49 seats	30 seats	10 seats
Seat change	8	2	2
Percentage	39.64%	41.35%	16.50%
Swing	0.71	2.63	1.62

Premier before election

Joh Bjelke-Petersen
National

Elected Premier

Joh Bjelke-Petersen
National

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 1 November 1986 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. It followed a redistribution which increased the number of seats in the Assembly from 82 to 89.

The election resulted in a seventh consecutive term for the National Party under Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. It was the 11th consecutive term for the National Party in Queensland since it first came to office in 1957. The Nationals secured a majority in their own right, with 49 seats. It is the only time that the Nationals have ever won enough seats to govern alone in an election at any level. They had come up one seat short of an outright majority in 1983, but picked up a majority persuaded two Liberals to cross the floor.

This was the last time that a non-Labor Government was elected at a Queensland state election until 2012, although the Coalition briefly held government from 1996 to 1998 following the Mundingburra by-election.

All three parties had high hopes for the election. The Nationals knew that they needed to increase their number of seats in order to hang onto Government (they had held a majority of one in the last Parliament, which had been increased from 82 seats to 89 for the 1986 election). The Liberals desperately needed to win back some of their losses from their disastrous performance in 1983, and Labor hoped to exploit disunity between the conservative parties to make gains.

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