Separation

Queensland State election, 2012. Anna Bligh’s ALP was swept from office and almost entirely from the political map after a massive state-wide electoral swing handed government to the LNP under new leader, former Brisbane Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman. Most Independent and Labor MPs were defeated, leaving the ALP with only seven of its 51 seats going in to the poll: four in Brisbane’s south and south-west and three in northern provincial areas. The State’s electoral map is awash with LNP blue after the party captured seats never before given up by Labor, and took a stranglehold on the all-important south-east corner. The ‘barnstorming’ arrival on the electoral scene of Bob Katter’s Australian Party attracted 11.5% of the state-wide vote, but succeeded in winning only two seats in the State’s far north. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2012

Queensland State election, 2006. By the 2006 poll, Peter Beattie's Labor government was firmly entrenched across much of the electoral landscape. This election continued the gradual demise of One Nation, with the party holding its sole seat in far north Queensland but seeing its primary vote collapse to less than one percent. The Liberals and Nationals gained a handful of seats in their traditional heartlands of the Sunshine Coast and rural/provincial electorates respectively but otherwise made up little ground on Labor’s commanding primary vote; a handful of conservative Independents rounded out the remaining seats in the State’s southeast. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2006

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