Queensland state election, 1956

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All 75 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

	First party	Second party

Leader	Vince Gair	Frank Nicklin
Party	Labor	Country/Liberal coalition
Leader since	17 January 1952 (1952-01-17)	21 May 1941
Leader's seat	South Brisbane	Landsborough
Last election	50 seats	23 seats
Seats won	49 seats	24 seats
Seat change	1	1
Percentage	51.22%	44.34%
Swing	1.99	4.30

Premier before election

Vince Gair
Labor

Elected Premier

Vince Gair
Labor

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 19 May 1956 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its ninth continuous term in office since the 1932 election; it would be Vince Gair's second election as Premier.

Queensland state election, 19 May 1956
Legislative Assembly
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This was to be Labor's last successful election until the 1989 election. On 18 April 1957, the Queensland Central Executive of the Labor Party passed a vote of no confidence in Premier Gair, and on 24 April, despite having gained a unanimous vote of support from the Cabinet, he was expelled from the Labor Party. On 26 April, Gair convened a meeting of 25 MLAs, including all of the Cabinet except Deputy Premier John Duggan and two ex-Labor Independents, and formed the Queensland Labor Party (QLP) with those present, while the Labor Party moved to the opposition benches. All these were also expelled from the party. The resulting government was denied supply in parliament, and an election was called for 3 August, at which the QLP government and the Labor Party were defeated by the Country-Liberal coalition led by Frank Nicklin.

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