The seats where One Nation screwed over Labor

Support for One Nation has increased across the country — and voters directly punished Labor by voting for Pauline Hanson’s party.

Support for One Nation has increased across the country — and voters have punished Labor by voting for Pauline Hanson’s party.

In Queensland, there was a 3 per cent swing towards One Nation and a 3.47 swing against Labor, based on first preferences.

Labor’s two-party preferred vote dropped by around 1 per cent across the seats with a recorded swing.

Labor blamed its disastrous results in Queensland on preference deals the Coalition struck with One Nation and Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party.

Labor’s Brendan O’Connor told the ABC his party had “great difficulty” in Queensland.

“I think that’s in part due to the massive spend by Clive Palmer and One Nation on

preferencing to the Government, to the Liberal Party,” he said on the night of the election.

“Clearly, the impact of the combination of those minor parties were, you know, preferencing to the Liberals has meant that we haven’t been able to pick up seats and indeed have lost seats.”

Labor’s Penny Wong echoed Mr O’Connor’s comments.

“The public polling at least had us in a different place,” she said.

“I think that the LNP in Queensland has done well as a consequence, in part, of what’s

occurred with the Palmer and One Nation deals which have been done, and Australians, I think, will need to think about what that means for our country if there are substantial numbers of seats which end up going to a particular party because there’s a deal with a man like Mr Palmer or Pauline Hanson.”

Several crucial seats showed the higher the swing towards One Nation, the higher the swing was against the Labor Party.

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NSW marginal seats

Dawson

DAWSON, QUEENSLAND

The seat of Dawson had a swing of almost 13 per cent towards One Nation candidate Debra Lawson and a swing of more than 12 per cent away from Labor’s Belinda Hassan in the first preferences.

The two-candidate preferred count had an 11.27 per cent swing towards the LNP’s George Christensen and away from Ms Hassan.

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Capricornia

CAPRICORNIA, QUEENSLAND

The seat of Capricornia had a swing of over 16 per cent towards One Nation’s Wade Rothery and a swing against Labor’s Russell Robertson of 13.34 per cent on first preferences.

The LNP’s Michelle Landry took the electorate with over 61 per cent of the vote against Labor.

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NSW marginal seats

Hunter

HUNTER, NSW

One Nation also struck deep into Labor heartland in NSW, with candidate Stuart Bonds gaining a massive 21 per cent swing towards him, while Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon suffered a 14-point swing against him.

Mr Bonds scored one in five voters’ first preferences despite a video emerging during the campaign showing him saying “the only thing worse than a gay person in power is a woman”.

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Forde

FORDE, QUEENSLAND

The seat of Forde had an 11.34 per cent swing in favour of One Nation’s Ian Bowron compared with a 7.10 per cent swing away from Labor’s Des Hardman.

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Petrie

PETRIE, QUEENSLAND

In the seat of Petrie, One Nation candidate Nikhil Aai Reddy got a 7.28 per cent swing, while there was a swing of more than 6 per cent against Labor candidate Corinne Mulholland.

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Braddon

BRADDON, TASMANIA

The seat of Braddon in Tasmania had a swing of more than 5.5 per cent towards One Nation’s Graham Gallaher and a swing of more than 7 per cent away from Labor’s Justine Keay. The Liberal Party’s Gavin Pearce won the electorate with 53 per cent of votes.

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Pearce

PEARCE, WA

In the Western Australian seat of Pearce, One Nation’s Sandy Old got a positive swing of more than 7 per cent, while Labor’s Kim Travers suffered a 4 per cent swing against her.