Queensland state election, 2009

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All 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

	First party	Second party

Leader	Anna Bligh	Lawrence Springborg
Party	Labor	Liberal National
Leader since	13 September 2007 (2007-09-13)	21 January 2008 (2008-01-21)
Leader's seat	South Brisbane	Southern Downs
Last election	59 seats	25 seats
Seats won	51 seats	34 seats
Seat change	8	9
Percentage	50.9%	49.1%
Swing	4.1	4.1

Premier before election

Anna Bligh
Labor

Elected Premier

Anna Bligh
Labor

The Queensland state election was held to elect members to the unicameral Parliament of Queensland on 21 March 2009. The election saw the incumbent Labor government led by Premier Anna Bligh defeat the Liberal National Party of Queensland led by Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg, and gain a fifth consecutive term in office for her party. Bligh thus became the first female Premier of any Australian State elected in her own right.

The 2009 election also marked the eighth consecutive victory of the ALP in a general election since 1989 although it was out of office between 1996 and 1998 as a direct result of the 1996 Mundingburra by-election.

Queensland state election, 21 March 2009
Legislative Assembly
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^¶Ronan Lee was elected as a member of the Labor Party in 2006, but he defected to the Greens in 2008.

One of the gains by the Liberal Nationals was the defeat of the Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation Andrew McNamara (Hervey Bay). The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, Training and the Arts, Bonny Barry (Aspley), was also defeated.

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