Queensland election 2024 as it happened: David Crisafulli declares victory, saying Queensland has voted for a majority LNP government

Thanks for joining us tonight for our live coverage of this Queensland state election.

There are still votes to count and seats to be decided, but it looks increasingly likely that the LNP has won majority government tonight, and David Crisafulli will be the next premier.

We’ll be back tomorrow with analysis of where all the parties landed, and will return on Monday morning for live coverage of Brisbane news.

LNP leader David Crisafulli has hinted at his ambition to win a second term at the next state election in 2028.

“We haven’t won back-to-back elections in this state since 1986,” he said.

David Crisafulli will become the next premier of Queensland.

Crisafulli said his opponents would not be able to run scare campaigns in four years’ time.

“When all of those allegations, when all of the scare and all of the fear doesn’t come to fruition, then we want to deliver a second term LNP government,” he said.

Crisafulli said it was important to govern with humility, decency, vision and tenacity, with a nod to Labor leader Gough Whitlam’s 1972 campaign.

“And in doing so, we get the opportunity to govern for a longer period of time,” he said.

“And if we get that opportunity, we can do great things for our party, for our kids, for our state.

“To borrow a phrase from a different era and different political movement – it’s time.”

David Crisafulli says his party’s victory is a vindication of a “hell of a lot of hard work” and strategy.

“Of the last 12 general elections in this state, we’ve only won one on election night, and tonight, we get to celebrate the biggest achievement we’ve had in over a decade,” he said.

Crisafulli delivered a message to Queensland’s public servants.

“I want you to know we intend to give vision and direction and leadership, but advice will be fearless and frank,” he said.

“The culture of entrenched fear will be over, and together we can deliver the services in Queensland.”

Crisafulli said he was mindful that many public servants, and other Queenslanders, may not have voted for the LNP because of scare campaigns.

“This isn’t America ... we don’t pander to extremes,” he said.

LNP leader David Crisafulli says Queenslanders have voted for a majority LNP government.

Crisafulli thanked Labor’s Steven Miles for serving as premier, pointing out the fact the son of a factory worker could become Premier “tells you everything you need to know about how great Queensland is”.

“I want to thank the members of his team who have lost seats tonight,” Crisafulli said.

“Politics is a really, really tough game and it’s families who bear the scars of that.

“And tonight, to those members who’ve lost their seat, I wish them well in the future.”

To chants of “LNP”, deputy opposition leader Jarrod Bleijie has started speaking to the party faithful.

“Queensland has voted for a majority LNP government,” he said.

“Tonight Queenslanders voted for change. Tonight Queenslanders voted for David Crisafulli.”

His comments came after Premier Steven Miles spoke to Labor members, claiming neither party had a majority.

Veteran election analyst Antony Green says the ABC is now projecting an LNP majority.

Premier Steven Miles used his speech to declare neither party would have a majority, but Green is confident the LNP will have the 47 seats required.

Asked whether Miles should have conceded the election, Labor frontbencher Cameron Dick would only say Green had experience making such calls and he could not speak for Miles.

“I have to defer to the leader to do that, it’s not my job,” Dick said.

“It’s not for me to concede.”

Minutes after a room of red erupted, chanting “Steven” at the departing Labor Party leader, the energy at the ALP’s election-night function has slumped.

Labor supporters have streamed out of the north Brisbane pub and the stage is all but torn down, despite Miles never explicitly conceding in his address.

Steven Miles left stopped short of conceding defeat in the election.Credit: Catherine Strohfeldt

Closing out his speech by thanking Labor party faithful, Miles promised his campaign focus – cost-of-living relief – would not end tonight, even if the LNP claims power once polls are finalised.

“Whatever the final number of seats, I will keep doing what matters for Queensland,” he said.

“I will never stop fighting for our Labor agenda and I will never stop holding the LNP to account.”

Premier Steven Miles conceded Labor had lost its majority but he stopped short of conceding the election.

As the election panels debate whether his speech reflected the numerical reality of the count, or a continuation of a bitter campaign, LNP frontbencher David Janetzki had his say.

Asked if LNP leader David Crisafulli could declare victory, Janetzki predicted what he could.

“I can guarantee that he’s about to show a lot more grace than Steven Miles just showed,” Janetzki told the ABC election panel.

“If I know anything about David Crisafulli he’ll be classy, he’ll be dignified, and he’s about to provide the leadership that Queensland so desperately needs.”

Russell Field, whose son Matthew was struck and killed alongside his pregnant fiancee by a teenager in a stolen car, has won the seat of Capalaba from Labor’s Don Brown.

Brown has conceded the seat, and Field currently has more than 43 per cent of the preliminary count.

Cracking down on crime has been one of the LNP’s main pillars in the Queensland state election campaign.

Speaking to Nine News, Field said he hoped he would be able to make change for “all victims, past, present and future”.

“We can’t let Matt, Kate and Miles’ death be in vain, and hopefully this is something where we can achieve something, some good for ourselves and others, to give us a little bit of legacy, or give Matt Kate and Miles some legacy.”