LNP matches Rudd's 2007 feat in Queensland

THE excruciating irony of it: the conservatives have won nine seats in Queensland tonight, matching Kevin Rudd's feat in 2007, but no one can say who will govern the country.

THE excruciating irony of it: the conservatives have won nine seats in Queensland tonight, matching Kevin Rudd's feat in 2007, but no one can say who will govern the country.

Former Howard government MPs Teresa Gambaro and Warren Entsch are among the winners for the Queensland arm of the Coalition, the Liberal National Party, as voters in the former prime minister's home state hammered the ALP.

In the seat of Longman on Brisbane's northern outskirts 20-year-old Wyatt Roy is poised to become the youngest ever MP at the expense of Labor's Jon Sullivan.

Time has been called for ALP veteran Arch Bevis after he was slammed by a double-digit swing against Labor in the seat of Brisbane, which he had held since 1990.

Ms Gambaro has taken the seat, erasing the disappointment of her defeat in bayside Petrie in 2007, while Mr Entsch reclaimed the Cairns-based electorate of Leichhardt from Labor's Jim Turnour.

If Tony Abbott gets to form a minority government, he can thank Queenslanders. Whatever the result, the recriminations in the ALP will be fierce.