Huge Swings Further Dent Queensland Labor’s Election Chances

Published on March 16, 2024

Enormous swings against Queensland Labor in two by-elections have highlighted Premier Steven Miles’s difficult challenge to retain power in October. The Miles government appears certain to have lost the safe seat of Ipswich West after an 18 percent swing gave Ipswich Show Society president Darren Zanow and the Liberal National Party a 2.9 percent margin. The LNP also cannoned through a 28 percent margin former premier Annastacia Palaszczuk built up in Inala before retiring in 2023. Labor’s primary vote fell to a historic low of 36 percent but projections on Sunday had candidate Margie Nightingale retaining the seat in Brisbane’s southwest on a 7 percent margin, beating out the LNP’s Trang Yen....

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