Qld election 2020 live: Queenslanders set to deliver huge win for Premier who 'kept them safe'

Former Premier Campbell Newman has unloaded on his own party, sticking the boot into opposition leader Deb Frecklington after a huge defeat.

Former Premier Campbell Newman has unloaded on his own party, sticking the boot into opposition leader Deb Frecklington after a huge defeat.

"Spare me the COVID-19 excuse for what's happening tonight in Queensland," he tweeted. "The LNP primary vote was 36 per cent a year ago. We had a problem prior to the pandemic."

Mr Newman, who led the LNP to an astonishing victory in 2012 before losing after just one term in power, said on Sky News' election panel that Ms Frecklington failed to to capitalise on negative sentiment towards Annastacia Palaszczuk’s tough border stance in tourism-dependent communities.

“The people there should understand that it’s been extremely bad for their livelihoods, and that’s the way you’ve got to campaign," he said.

2020 QLD state election results 

 

Major parties

• LNP 0
• ALP 0

Others

• ONP 0
• UAP 0
• KAP 0
• OTH 0
• GRN 0

Called seats

47 seats or more for win, 85% called 0 in doubt.
Seats are called by our experts, ECQ official results

A record number of Queenslanders voted early this year to avoid the queues – and, as it turned out, the wild weather and "dangerous" storms that lashed southeast Queensland this afternoon.

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