Queensland state election, 1998

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All 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Peter Beattie	Rob Borbidge	Heather Hill
Party	Labor	National/Liberal coalition	One Nation
Leader since	20 February 1996 (1996-02-20)	10 December 1991	1998
Leader's seat	Brisbane Central	Surfers Paradise	Contested Ipswich (lost)
Last election	45 seats	43 seats	–
Seats won	44 seats	32 seats	11 seats
Seat change	1	11	11
Percentage	38.86%	31.26%	22.68%
Swing	4.03	17.73	22.68

Premier before election

Rob Borbidge
National/Liberal coalition

Resulting Premier

Peter Beattie
Labor

Rob Borbidge
National/Liberal coalition

Peter Beattie
Labor

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 13 June 1998 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

The result of the election was a second consecutive hung parliament, with the Australian Labor Party forming minority government after receiving the support of independent Peter Wellington. This election was the first in which One Nation supporters were elected into state Parliament, with the controversial party winning 11 seats. With nearly 23% of the vote, One Nation gained a higher percentage of the vote than any other third party (non-Labor or Coalition) at the state or territory level since Federation. This was also the only election where a third party has gained more votes than both the Liberal and National parties (considered separately). No attempt was made to calculate a two-party vote, unlike in past elections; the One Nation vote was so high that any 2PP result would have been meaningless.

A few months after the election, the One Nation member for Mulgrave, Charles Rappolt resigned. Labor won the ensuing by-election, allowing it to form government with a bare majority of 45 seats.

The fact that the Coalition Government came to office as a direct result of the 1996 Mundingburra by-election instead of the general election the previous year, as well as its failure to win in its own right at the 1998 election meant that the 1998 election was the fourth consecutive election victory for the Queensland ALP, which had won every election since 1989.

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