Queensland election live

9.25pm. ABC computer has Maryborough back to LNP gain, after lapsing to LNP ahead for a while there.

9.07pm. Though as Antony notes, what has saved Curtis Pitt in Mulgrave is the surge to Katter’s Australian Party in north Queensland, much of which has exhausted.

9.05pm. Labor members who distinguished themselves by suffering swings of less than 10 per cent: Di Farmer in Bulimba, who has her nose in front; Jason O’Brien, whose 4.5 per cent swing against was good but not good enough; Cameron Dick in Greenslopes, likewise good but not good enough; Curtis Pitt, who has had a big personal win in retaining Mulgrave against a swing of 6.6 per cent; Anna Bligh in South Brisbane, who has actually held South Brisbane quite comfortably; Mandy Johnstone in Townsville; and Simon Finn, who might yet hold in Yeerongpilly in the face of a 9 per cent swing, but is nonetheless behind.

9.04pm. Antony cautious about the LNP winning Maryborough.

8.49pm. ABC computer promotes Bulimba and Mulgrave from ALP ahead to ALP retain. Of the eight seats where they’re in front, there are now seven down as “ALP gain”, with only Mackay remaining as “ALP ahead”. Waterford has gone from “LNP ahead” to “LNP gain”. By this reckoning, Labor’s absolute best case scenario is now nine seats.

8.39pm. ABC computer has dialled Maryborough back from LNP gain to LNP ahead.

8.25pm. The KAP may yet have an outside hope in Thuringowa if Labor preferences favour them strongly. The primary votes are 36.0 per cent for the LNP, 30.6 per cent for the KAP and 27.4 per cent for labor. Antony Green appears not to think so though. Bob Katter sounding bullish, for what it’s worth.

8.18pm. Sorry, got confused there – it has stayed on eight. Mulgrave now up from ALP ahead to ALP retain.

8.12pm. ABC now down to seven seats with Labor ahead: retaining Bundamba, Inala, Rockhampton, South Brisbane and Woodridge, ahead in Bulimba, Mackay and Mulgrave. LNP ahead in Waterford and Yeerongpilly. Everything else compared for the LNP, except Mount Isa and Dalrympe for Katter’s Australian Party, Nicklin and Gladstone retained by independents.

8.10pm. ABC computer now calling independent Chris Foley’s seat of Maryborough for the LNP.

7.56pm. ABC computer now has Labor ahead in only eight seats.

7.45pm. As noted by Antony, the KAP has not made huge gains out of coal seam gas in the Darling Downs: its strength remains very much off the back of Katter in the north.

7.44pm. Antony Green not buying Seeney’s line that Peter Wellington is in trouble in Nicklin.

7.42pm. ABC calling Ipswich West for LNP.

7.41pm. ABC calling South Brisbane for Anna Bligh.

7.31pm. Of the four independents, only Liz Cunningham in Gladstone is safe. Close contest in Maryborough between independent incumbent Chris Foley and LNP challenger Anne Maddern. Dissonance between the ABC computer (IND retain) and what Jeff Seeney says (LNP looking good) with Peter Wellington’s seat of Nicklin. LNP easily recovers Burnett, where Rob Messenger quit the party mid-term. Pretty clear I think that the KAP will win Mount Isa and Dalrymple, but no more.

7.30pm. The ABC website’s predictions columns has swung into action. Bundamba, Inala, Rockhampton and Woodridge, and is ahead in Bulimba, Mackay, Mulgrave, Nudgee and South Brisbane. They could conceivably win Logan, Mundingburra, Springwood and Waterford, but there are too few figures in from them. They are behind in Cook, Lytton, Townsville and Yeerongpilly, but not gone yet.

7.28pm. Jeff Seeney sounding confident about Nicklin, but the ABC computer is calling it for Peter Wellington.

7.24pm. With a quarter of the vote counted, the ABC computer has Anna Bligh edging back ahead in South Brisbane. But clearly Andrew Fraser and Cameron Dick are gone.

7.16pm. ABC’s two-party preferred projection is about 64-36, so the exit polls are looking good.

7.15pm. ABC computer projection, when bold calls are made where one or other party is merely “ahead”, now has Labor down to 10 from 14 earlier.

7.14pm. ABC computer graphic says three seats for KAP, but I can’t see anything beyond Mount Isa and Dalrymple.

7.13pm. Carl Rackemann (KAP) appears to be falling well short in Nanango; LNP’s Deb Frecklington to win comfortably.

7.07pm. Spare a thought for Peter Beattie’s old seat of Brisbane Central: he held it by 25 per cent after the 2001 election, ABC computer now calling it for LNP (results on site lagging behind what we’re getting on television).

7.06pm. Oh yeah, Ashgrove. ABC computer has Campbell Newman romping home by 9 per cent.

7.05pm. Peter Wellington firming up in Nicklin.

7.02pm. Antony’s casualty list: Everton, Broadwater, Cook, Barron River, Townsville North, Whitsunday, Southport, Townsville, Cairns, Mansfield, Kallangur, Pine Rivers, Mount Ommaney, Burleigh, Pumicestone, Mount Coot-tha, Redcliffe, Brisbane Central, Albert, Mundingburra, Greenslopes, Ashgrove, Murrumba, Stafford, Thuringowa, Algester, Stretton, Sunnybank, Lytton.

6.54pm. Courtesy of Psephos in comments, Labor expects to lose Capalaba, which you would expect given the overall swing: the margin is 9.7 per cent.

6.52pm. Peter Wellington with a slight primary vote lead in Nicklin, but booth-matching shows a huge and decisive swing to the LNP. Probably want more figures though.

6.51pm. Anna Bligh trailing on the primary vote in South Brisbane, and slightly behind on the primary vote. But Greens preferences might save her.

6.49pm. Antony cites a swing of 13 per cent, placing the result nearer Newspoll than the exit polls which had it slightly higher. However, it may yet change. The LNP has recovered Beaudesert, where its member Aidan McLindon had defected to the KAP, which was not unexpected.

6.47pm. Nothing appearing in the “predictions” column on the ABC results page, which is bothersome because it’s the best way to follow the action when seats are falling by the bucketload.

6.42pm. As Antony notes, early results hard to read exactly because of small rural booth results: assumptions are being made about Katter’s Australian Party preferences, which constitute a considerable share of the vote. However, the ABC computer is already set to tick over to a majority for the LNP. More than 20 seats have fallen, and it’s happening too quickly for me to keep up.

6.32pm. ABC computer already calling 22 seats for the LNP and one for Labor.

6.30pm. Jeff Seeney claims Katter’s Australian Party vote well short of what they would need on small booths.

6.26pm. Two small booths in from Dalrymple: very early days of course, but encouraging for KAP incumbent Shane Knuth on 50.0 per cent.

5.19pm. Sky’s exit poll shows a 15.3 per cent swing. They appear to have done the right thing this time and told us what the swing was, rather than publishing a bewildering two-party preferred figure without telling us what seats were polled, as they have done in the past. These were the five most marginal seats: Chatsworth and Everton in Brisbane, Broadwater on the Gold Coast, Cook on the Cape York Peninsula and Barron River in Cairns.

5.10pm. Peter Black at Essential Research relates on Twitter that a Galaxy exit poll conducted for Channel Nine has the LNP’s two-party lead at 63-37.

4.40pm. Closure of polls still over an hour away, but Sky News has published its first exit poll results, only providing material on the most important factor in determining vote choice. As usual, these are hard to read, because they apparently target only the five most marginal seats. If this is to be taken literally, they have chosen seats which are pretty meaningless in the context of this election: all will be easily won by the LNP. For what it’s worth, they have the cost of living at 69 per cent, delivery of state servies at 63 per cent, carbon tax at 44 per cent, mining tax at 35 per cent and Campbell Newman’s business dealings at 17 per cent. I presume respondents were asked in turn whether each of these issues were important to them.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

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  2. Poor Anna
    Another Labor woman Premier bites the dust !!!!!

    Lawrence…Kirner…Kennelly….
    BTW Tassy polls shows Giddings in a disasterous poll situation too

  6. Hey guys, it is starting to look like the Romans v the Catharginians at Cannae. And look what happened to Hannibal in the end.

  11. [“Bligh could lose her seat, WOW didn’t predict that one…”]

    I mentioned this yesterday but no one took me seriously.

    The question the media should have been asking is who will the Labor leader be if Anna Bligh loses her seat… yet the leftwing media refused to ask this question the entire campaign(lots of navel gazing about LNP leader though)

  12. [Poor Anna
    Another Labor woman Premier bites the dust !!!!!

    Lawrence…Kirner…Kennelly….
    BTW Tassy polls shows Giddings in a disasterous poll situation too]
    However she did win the last election – a feat not achieved by the others you nominate.

  21. [ There is somebody else on the panel, presumably for balance, but he has yet to say a word.
    He has not even been introduced.

    That would be the silent majority representative. ]

    Yeah, I noticed Clive Palmer on Channel 9’s election panel. Blimey, have they gone downhill in recent times.

  24. Psephos

    [It’s Liberal gloat night, folks. Let it go. If you don’t like it, watch the football.]

    GWS don’t look to bad. Better than Gold Coast in their first match.

  27. dovif,

    [ 1 Lying biatch down, 1 to go ]

    Blimey mate. I thought you better than that. You’re right down at pond slime level with that comment.

  28. I wonder if Antony Green will ever get through an election night without a string of technical gremlins leaving him red-faced.

  30. [It’s Liberal gloat night, folks. Let it go. If you don’t like it, watch the football.]

    Raiders don’t play till Monday. 🙂

  33. Yes, GWS are holding their own.

    Question: Who was the last sitting Premier to lose their seat? James Mitchell in WA in 1933 is the only one that comes to mind.

  35. Sorry guys I went overboard with that comment

    On another note, the Qld ALP is much better then the NSW ALP, and it appears they will end up with less seats, I think that is unfair

  36. Nice bit of positioning on Channel 9’s election panel.They’ve got the two snowy headed panelists on each side of the panel.

    Clive on the left and Bob Katter on the right.

    Somehow, that doesn’t seem right………..or is that left! 😉

  37. Good god what a nasty bit of work Springborg is with his comments about Bob Katter.

    No wonder Springborg is not only a has-been but a never-was

  41. [“Ashgrove was the one slim hope for some remaining interest tonight. Might as well have an early night.”]

    NO! We still have Anna Blights seat to go…

  43. I am also surprise how many seats the Greens has gone backwards in, it seams like the whole left side of Australian politics is being punished atm

  46. [On another note, the Qld ALP is much better then the NSW ALP, and it appears they will end up with less seats, I think that is unfair]

    A few elections ago libs were reduced to 3 seats, in NSW Greiner romped home against labor and almost lost the next election., landslide doesn’t always mean long term.

    Agree what you said about Bligh and the removal of the petrol subsidy and rego, that was a double whammy that had people seething for a long time.

  50. I am not attempting to be a troll here…….

    but there has to be an effect on the ALP caucus from these results, in NSW and then in Qld. The vast majority of the Qld delegation in caucus voted for Gillard and although I am not suggesting this is a vote on Federal issues, it still has Federal implications.

    If the Federal polling heads into the NSW and Qld domain of the high 50s it is going to be a very unsettling time for backbenchers. I am confident the series of polls coming out in the next week (Morgan phone, Essential, ACN, Galaxy) will show a significant deterioration in the ALP vote federally.

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