Election held on 9 September 2006
Criteria for the inclusion of parties in this table are set out in the Glossary under 'listed party'
Party Name | First preference vote n | First preference vote share % | Change from previous election % | Seats won n | Uncontested seats held n | Seat share % |
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Australian Labor Party | 1,032,617 | 46.92 | -0.10 | 59 | 0 | 66.29 |
Liberal Party | 442,453 | 20.10 | +1.60 | 8 | 0 | 8.99 |
National Party | 392,124 | 17.82 | +0.85 | 17 | 0 | 19.10 |
Greens | 175,798 | 7.99 | +1.22 | 0 | ||
Independents | 103,022 | 4.68 | -1.15 | 4 | 0 | 4.49 |
Family First | 41,659 | 1.89 | * | 0 | ||
One Nation | 13,207 | 0.60 | * | 1 | 0 | 1.12 |
Votes for other than listed parties | 0 | 0.00 | -0.04 | |||
Totals | 2,200,880 | 100.00 | 89 | 0 | 100.00 |
* Party did not contest previous election or did not meet criteria for listing, or contested previous election under a different party name.
Independents: The vote shown for independents at this Queensland Legislative Assembly election is the sum of votes cast for all candidates who ran for office without a registered party name. There were 46 such candidates, four of whom were elected: Elizabeth Cunningham (electoral district of Gladstone), Christopher Foley (electoral district of Maryborough); Dorothy Pratt (electoral district of Nanango); and Peter Wellington (electoral district of Nicklin).
One Nation and Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party: Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party made a dramatic entry to Queensland politics at the Queensland Legislative Assembly election of 1998 but experienced a series of major organizational changes and the decline of its vote share. The party had been reconstituted several times and by this election (2006) was registered as One Nation and had few ties with Pauline Hanson.
References: For a summary description of this election, see Paul D Williams, 'Queensland', Australian Journal of Politics and History, Australian Political Chronicles, 53 (2) June 2007: 303-306.
Electoral Commission of Queensland, Queensland State General Election 2006: Statistical Returns, (Brisbane: March 2007, ISBN 072426857X), online at: https://bit.ly/2Bhb3eF