Queensland Election results 2017: Live seat results, news and analysis

AS Annastacia Palaszczuk declared her party would be able to form majority government, despite a final result not yet known, Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls hit back saying “the Premier has not won a majority in her own right.”

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PREMIER Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is unable to declare victory tonight but remains confident her party will be able to form majority government.

Counting has closed for the night and the state’s new preference system makes it difficult to declare a number of seats. SCROLL DOWN TO FOLLOW ELECTION NIGHT RESULTS AS THEY HAPPENED “This election has been like climbing Mount Everest all over again,” she told the ALP function at the Oxley Golf Club. “Tonight, we are close to the peak but we are not quite there and we will not get there tonight. “But I remain confident we will be able to form a majority Labor government once all the votes are counted.” Opposition leader Tim Nicholls, however, refused to concede defeat. Speaking to his supporters tonight, Mr Nicholls said while the count so far had shown “Queenslanders have voted to shake things up” he said “it’s clear that the Premier has not won a majority in her own right.” “Let’s be realistic, nor have we,” he said. Despite a 7 per cent swing away from the LNP, Mr Nicholls remained optimistic and said there were 360,000 postal votes yet to be counted over the coming days. “There are between 10-14 seats in doubt across Queensland and those seats will determine the outcome of this election,” he said. Labor needs to win at least 47 seats in the 93-seat parliament to form a majority government, but at 10.30pm was sitting on around 41 seats. Earlier this evening former Queensland premiers Campbell Newman and Peter Beattie called the election based on current results and declared Labor as the winners. Their analysis follows a Galaxy Research exit poll of almost 1800 voters across 18 electorates state wide, conducted for Channel 9, which found Labor leading the LNP 52 per cent to 48 per cent, two-party-preferred. One Nation's Steve Dickson likely to seat The result represents a swing of almost 1 per cent to Labor since the 2015 election. Galaxy managing director David Briggs said the polling also confirms Labor will likely pick up seats in the southeast but lose electorates in the regions like Mundingburra. “In southeast Queensland the swing to Labor is almost three percentage points whereas in the rest of the state there is a swing of two percentage points away from Labor,” he said. “This puts seats such as Bundaberg, Maryborough, Burdekin and Mundingburra at serious risk for Labor.” Support for One Nation is sitting at 13 per cent state wide, according to the exit poll. That number increases to 22 per cent in the regions but drops back to just eight per cent in the southeast corner. “This will make many regional seats three cornered contests in which the result could be unpredictable,” Mr Briggs said. “However, where it comes down to the LNP candidate versus One Nation, Labor preferences will elect the LNP candidate.” The exit poll also found support for The Greens had increased only slightly, up from 8.4 per cent in 2015 to 9 per cent. Queensland election 2017 seat map

Originally published as Queensland Election results 2017: Live seat results, news and analysis

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