Queensland state election, 2006

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9 September 2006 (2006-09-09)

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All 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

	First party	Second party

Leader	Peter Beattie	Lawrence Springborg
Party	Labor	National/Liberal coalition
Leader since	20 February 1996 (1996-02-20)	4 February 2003
Leader's seat	Brisbane Central	Southern Downs
Last election	63 seats	20 seats
Seats won	59 seats	25 seats
Seat change	4	5
Percentage	46.92%	37.92%
Swing	0.09	2.46

Premier before election

Peter Beattie
Labor

Elected Premier

Peter Beattie
Labor

An election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 9 September 2006 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly, after being announced by Premier Peter Beattie on 15 August 2006.

The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Peter Beattie defeat the National-Liberal Coalition led by Lawrence Springborg and Bruce Flegg respectively, and gain a fourth consecutive term in office. Beattie thus became the first Labor Premier of Queensland to win four consecutive elections since William Forgan Smith did so in the 1930s. Had Beattie served out his fourth term, he would have become the second-longest serving Queensland Premier, after Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. After the election, Springborg resigned as Opposition Leader, being replaced by Jeff Seeney,

The election result was disappointing for the Coalition. It failed to make significant gains from Labor, despite the fact that the Government had been in office for eight years and had been mired in a series of scandals in its third term. It also failed to make headway against the Independents which still held many safe rural conservative seats, winning back only Gympie. Recent instability in the Coalition, combined with a poor media performance by inexperienced Liberal leader Dr Bruce Flegg was seen as being responsible for the result. In addition, Premier Peter Beattie remained personally popular. With Labor’s huge majority largely intact, it was seen as being unlikely that the Coalition would be able to win the next election.

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