One Nation

Queensland State election, 2004. By the 2004 state elections, One Nation’s presence in the political landscape shrunk to just one electorate: Tablelands. This was a remnant of the party’s spectacular success in the 1998 elections when One Nation captured 11 seats and received nearly one quarter of Queensland’s primary vote. This map shows a pattern of political division where Brisbane and the urban core (shaded grey) tend to be controlled by the Labor or Liberal parties. The larger rural and northern electorates tend to be dominated by the Nationals, Labor and to a lesser extent, One Nation. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2004

Queensland state election, 1995. Three years before Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party exploded onto the political scene, Queensland was divided between three major parties: the Australian Labor Party, the Liberal Party and the National Party. As indicated by this map of the 1995 State election results, Brisbane and metropolitan areas in the south east were dominated by the Labor and Liberal Parties. The larger rural and less populated electorates tended to be dominated by the Nationals. In the following 1998 elections, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party captured nearly a quarter of the state’s primary vote and emerged as a new political force. The spectacular success of One Nation accentuated deep divisions in the political and social landscape. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 1995