Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 19 September 1992 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
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Turnout | 91.48 ( 0.30 pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[2][3]
Although Labor suffered a small swing against it in north Queensland, that was slightly masked by the abolition of the zonal system.[4]
Date | Event |
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25 August 1992 | Writs were issued by the Governor to proceed with an election.[5] |
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. |
Queensland state election, 19 September 1992[6] | ||||||
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Enrolled voters | 1,951,675 | |||||
Votes cast | 1,785,403 | Turnout | 91.48% | +0.30% | ||
Informal votes | 40,242 | Informal | 2.25% | –0.75% | ||
Summary of votes by party | ||||||
Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
Labor | 850,480 | 48.73% | –1.59% | 54 | ± 0 | |
Nationals | 413,772 | 23.71% | –0.38% | 26 | – 1 | |
Liberal | 356,640 | 20.44% | –0.62% | 9 | + 1 | |
Confederate Action | 23,510 | 1.35% | +1.35% | 0 | ± 0 | |
Greens | 11,463 | 0.66% | +0.33% | 0 | ± 0 | |
Indigenous Peoples | 6,431 | 0.37% | +0.37% | 0 | ± 0 | |
Democrats | 5,774 | 0.33% | –0.09% | 0 | ± 0 | |
Independent | 77,091 | 4.42% | +1.20% | 0 | ± 0 | |
Total | 1,745,161 | 89 | ||||
Two-party-preferred | ||||||
Labor | 53.7% | -0.1% | ||||
National/Liberal | 46.3% | +0.1% |
Seat | 1991 Redistribution | Swing | 1992 Election | ||||||
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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 Eaton² | 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 | Bob King³ | 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 |