2009 Queensland state election

2009 Queensland state election

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All 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 45 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	90.93 ( 0.46 pp)
First party Second party Third party   ON Leader Anna Bligh Lawrence Springborg Rosa Lee Long Party Labor Liberal National One Nation Leader since 13 September 2007 (2007-09-13) 21 January 2008 (2008-01-21) 7 February 2004 (2004-02-07) Leader's seat South Brisbane Southern Downs Tablelands (lost seat) Last election 59 seats, 46.92% 25 seats, 37.92%[a] 1 seat, 0.60% Seats won 51 seats 34 seats 0 Seat change 8 9 1 Popular vote 1,002,415 987,018 9,038 Percentage 42.25% 41.60% 0.38% Swing 4.67 3.68[a] 0.22 TPP 50.9% 49.1% TPP swing 4.1 4.1
Winning margin by electorate.
Premier before election Anna Bligh Labor Elected Premier Anna Bligh Labor

The 2009 Queensland state election was held on 21 March 2009 to elect all 89 members of the Legislative Assembly, a unicameral parliament.

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.^[1]

This was the first election contested by the LNP following its creation with the merger of the National and Liberal parties.

The 2009 election marked the eighth consecutive victory of Labor 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.

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