In the last four decades, four Queensland elections have produced hung parliaments. Let me run through them. First, after the coalition split in 1983, the Nationals fell just short of a majority at the election. The lured two Liberals to join the Nationals. .../2 #qldvotes
1995 - Labor won 45 seats, Coalition 43, 1 Independent. The Labor 2PP% was 46.7%. After Labor lost the Mundingburra re-election in Feb 1996, the numbers were 44-44 and Independent Liz Cunningham named the 2PP% as why she backed Borbidge to replace Goss as Premier. .../3
1998 - the One Nation surge. Labor won 44 seats, one short of a majority. Independent Peter Wellington agreed to put Labor in office. The only alternative government was a National-Liberal-One Nation-Independent coalition. .../4
2015 - Labor won 44 seats, one short. Peter Wellington became Speaker, and with Katter's Australian Party holding 2 seats, the LNP could not bring down the government on its own, though LNP and KAP did defeat government from time time on specific votes, not no confidence votes.
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