Queensland state election, 1989

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2 December 1989 (1989-12-02)

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All 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Wayne Goss	Russell Cooper	Angus Innes
Party	Labor	National	Liberal
Leader since	2 March 1988 (1988-03-02)	25 September 1989	January 1988
Leader's seat	Logan	Roma	Sherwood
Last election	30 seats	49 seats	10 seats
Seats won	54 seats	27 seats	8 seats
Seat change	24	22	2
Percentage	50.32%	24.09%	21.05%
Swing	8.97	15.55	4.55

Premier before election

Russell Cooper
National

Elected Premier

Wayne Goss
Labor

Russell Cooper
National

Wayne Goss
Labor

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 2 December 1989 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. This was the first election following the downfall of seven-term premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen at the end of 1987.

The government was led by Premier and leader of the National Party, Russell Cooper; the opposition was led by Opposition Leader and leader of the Labor Party, Wayne Goss, whilst the Liberal Party was led by Angus Innes.

The National government, which had been in power since the 1957 election and had governed in its own right since the dissolution of the state coalition at the 1983 election, was defeated; the election was a landslide win for the Labor Party, which gained 24 seats. Labor also won more than 50% of the primary vote. At the time, it was the worst defeat of a sitting government in Queensland history.

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