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1992 Queensland state election

Australian state elections; won by Labor

Field	Value
election_name	1992 Queensland state election
country	Queensland
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1989 Queensland state election
previous_year	1989
next_election	1995 Queensland state election
next_year	1995
seats_for_election	All 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
45 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
turnout	91.48 ( 0.30 pp)
election_date
image1	[[File:Wayne Goss.png	150x150px]]
leader1	Wayne Goss
leader_since1
party1	Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
leaders_seat1	Logan
popular_vote1	850,480
percentage1	48.73%
swing1	1.59
last_election1	54 seats, 50.32%
seats1	54
seat_change1
image2	[[File:Nationals Placeholder.png	150x150px]]
leader2	Rob Borbidge
leader_since2
party2	National Party of Australia – Queensland
leaders_seat2	Surfers Paradise
popular_vote2	413,772
percentage2	23.71%
swing2	0.38
last_election2	27 seats, 24.09%
seats2	26
seat_change2	1
image3	[[File:Liberal Party of Australia placeholder portrait.svg	150x150px]]
leader3	Joan Sheldon
leader_since3
party3	Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division)
leaders_seat3	Caloundra
popular_vote3	356,640
percentage3	20.44%
swing3	0.62
last_election3	8 seats, 21.05%
seats3	9
seat_change3	1
1blank	TPP
2blank	TPP swing
1data1	53.7%
2data1	0.10
1data2	46.3%
2data2	0.10
title	Premier
before_election	Wayne Goss
before_party	Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
after_election	Wayne Goss
after_party	Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)

45 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 19 September 1992 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

The Labor Party led by Wayne Goss was reelected for a second term with a strong majority government. The election effectively confirmed the status quo, although the ALP lost a small percentage of votes and four seats. Three of those were new seats which were nominally Labor following the redistribution.

This was the first election in many decades in which a zonal system of electoral representation did not exist. The previous parliament had legislated for a "one vote one value" electoral redistribution, in which almost all the 89 electoral districts were to have similar numbers of electors (within a 10% margin of the mean). The only exceptions were electorates that had areas of at least 100,000 square kilometres. The number of electors in each of those electorates was increased by 2% of the total area of the electorate expressed in square kilometres, to ensure that the number of electors in the affected electorates was within 10% of the mean enrolment. This election also saw the introduction of optional preferential voting (replacing compulsory full-preferential voting) in Queensland elections, which would remain in place until the 2016 electoral reforms of the Palaszczuk government.

Although Labor suffered a small swing against it in north Queensland, that was slightly masked by the abolition of the zonal system.

Key dates

Date	Event
25 August 1992	Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.
29 August 1992	Close of electoral rolls.
1 September 1992	Close of nominations.
19 September 1992	Polling day, between the hours of 8am and 6pm.
24 September 1992	The Goss Ministry was reconstituted.
31 October 1992	The writ was returned and the results formally declared.

Electoral redistribution

A redistribution of electoral boundaries occurred in 1991. The zonal system was abolished, with a weighting added for remote electorates over 100,000km2.

The electorates of Auburn, Balonne, Bowen, Broadsound, Carnarvon, Condamine, Cooroora, Fassifern, Flinders, Glass House, Isis, Landsborough, Manly, Merthyr, Mourilyan, Nundah, Peak Downs, Pine Rivers, Port Curtis, Rockhampton North, Roma, Salisbury, Sherwood, Somerset, South Coast, Stafford, Toowong, Townsville East, Windsor, and Wolston were abolished.

The electorates of Beaudesert, Broadwater, Bundamba, Burleigh, Caloundra, Capalaba, Charters Towers, Chermside, Clayfield, Cleveland, Crows Nest, Ferny Grove, Fitzroy, Gladstone, Hervey Bay, Inala, Indooroopilly, Kallangur, Kedron, Keppel, Kurwongbah, Maroochydore, Merrimac, Mooloolah, Mount Ommaney, Mundingburra, Noosa, Sunnybank, Waterford, and Western Downs were created.

The redistribution added 7 more electorates to Greater Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast, while leaving 7 less electorates in regional Queensland. Aspley, Clayfield, and Hinchinbrook became notionally Labor-held.

The changes resulted in 59 notionally Labor-held seats, 10 notionally Liberal-held seats, and 20 notionally National-held seats.

Retiring members

Labor

Ron McLean (Bulimba)
Bill Prest (Port Curtis)
Nev Warburton (Sandgate)

National

Des Booth (Warwick) – Lost preselection
Bill Gunn (Somerset)
Neville Harper (Auburn) – Lost preselection
Bob Katter (Flinders)
Don Neal (Balonne)

Results

| turnout % = 91.48% | informal % = 2.25% |votes % = 48.73% |votes % = 23.71% |votes % = 20.44% |votes % = 1.35% |votes % = 0.66% |votes % = 0.37% |votes % = 0.33% |votes % = 4.42% |2pp % 1 = 53.7% |2pp % 2 = 46.3% |}

Seats changing hands

Seat	1992 Election	Party	Member	Margin	Margin	Member	Party
Aspley	Labor	notional	1.10	–2.03	0.93	John Goss	Liberal
Broadwater	Liberal	notional	4.80	–11.72	6.92	Allan Grice	National
Burleigh	Liberal	notional	3.60	–4.68	1.08	Judy Gamin	National
Caloundra	National	notional¹	6.20	–8.52	2.32	Joan Sheldon	Liberal
Charters Towers	Labor	Ken Smyth	1.60	–1.96	0.36	Rob Mitchell	National
Clayfield	Labor	notional	0.00	–4.08	4.08	Santo Santoro	Liberal
Currumbin	Liberal	Trevor Coomber	0.10	–5.91	5.81	Merri Rose	Labor
Hinchinbrook	Labor	Bill Eaton	3.00	–5.26	2.26	Marc Rowell	National
Keppel	Labor	Robert Schwarten	3.30	–4.71	1.41	Vince Lester	National
Maroochydore	Liberal	notional	4.10	–8.12	4.02	Fiona Simpson	National
Mooloolah	National	notional	6.50	–19.38	12.88	Bruce Laming	Liberal
Mount Ommaney	Liberal	David Dunworth	3.70	–4.95	1.25	Peter Pyke	Labor
Nicklin	Liberal	notional²	4.00	–11.88	7.88	Neil Turner	National
Noosa	Labor	Ray Barber	2.40	–4.86	2.46	Bruce Davidson	Liberal
Toowoomba North	Labor	John Flynn	0.10	–0.60	0.50	Graham Healy	National

Members listed in italics did not contest their seat at this election.
¹ Joan Sheldon gained Landsborough for the Liberal Party at the 1990 by-election. The National Party had retained the seat at the 1989 election.
² In 1990, the Court of Disputed Returns overturned the result and declared Neil Turner for the National Party elected in Nicklin. The Liberal Party had originally been declared the winner at the 1989 election.

Post-election pendulum

Subsequent changes

On 31 March 1994, National Party member Jim Randell (Mirani) resigned. At the by-election on 30 April 1994, Ted Malone retained the seat for the National Party.

References

"Queensland Parliamentary Record: Leaders, Parliamentary Parties". [[Parliament of Queensland]].
(17 January 2015). "Why Campbell Newman Advocates 'Just Vote 1'". ABC News.
"Antony Green - ABC News".
"Election Preview - Queensland Votes 2012". [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]].
Electoral Commission of Queensland. (1993). "Queensland Election 1992: Statistical Returns". The Commission.
Australian Government and Politics Database. "Parliament of Queensland, Assembly election, 19 September 1992".

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