Michelle Landry wins Capricornia for LNP for the fifth-straight time

Capricornia LNP MP Michelle Landry held her seat for the fifth-straight election despite big swings towards Labor.

LNP Capricornia MP Michelle Landry votes during the 2025 federal election at Frenchville State School on May 3, 2025.

The LNP’s Michelle Landry has won her fifth-straight election in the Central Queensland seat of Capricornia, but this time it’s a bittersweet victory.

Ms Landry held the seat despite a 3.14 per cent swing to Labor in two-party preference, and a 5.29 per cent loss in primary vote.

Speaking after the election, Ms Landry was of mixed emotions.

“It’s very exciting for me obviously, but I’m devastated about the losses that happened to the Coalition last night in the Liberal Party,” she said.

“It was gut-wrenching to watch.”

Ms Landry said there were “a number of reasons” why the LNP weren’t successful in this election.

“I think we probably did announce our policies a bit late and we didn’t have enough time to be selling that,” she said.

Ms Landry also said “lies” by the Labor Party and the Greens confused people.

“Our message got lost in the lies,” she said.

Despite the devastating national losses suffered by the LNP, Ms Landry vowed to continue fighting the Labor Party.

“It’s actually gut-wrenching that they won again,” she said.

“They’ve cut all the regional programs, they tried to cut the Rocky Ring Rd, it’s just been devastating what they have done to this area.

“Their candidate (Emily Mawson) only made one commitment to one sporting club, so they have got no commitments to the area, and we’re just going to have to keep up fighting with them to make sure we get our fair share up in regional Queensland.”

Ms Landry predicts some hard times ahead for Capricornia following the election.

“The only thing I think is a bit of a blessing is that Labor are there in their own right and we are not governed by the Greens and the Teals, because that would have been absolutely horrific,” she said.

“It’s going to be hard slog for us in the regions, but I’ve fought the mighty fight for nearly 12 years now and I’ll continue to do that to make sure we get our share up here in the regions.”

Ms Landry said she was “thankful” to all her voters.

“Thank you very much everyone for the amazing support,” she said.

“Thank you for putting your trust in me again and I won’t let you down.”

73.52 per cent of Capricornia ballot papers have been counted as of Sunday morning, with Ms Landry having 34.14 per cent of the vote while Ms Mawson is second with 30.29 per cent of the vote.

In third place is Pauline Hanson’s One Nation’s Cheryl Kempton, followed by former Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Mirani MP Stephen Andrew, who ran at the recent state election for the Katter party and now at the federal election for Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots.

In fifth place stands the Greens Mick Jones and Kerri Hislop of Family First is running last of the six candidates.

Originally published as Michelle Landry wins Capricornia for LNP for the fifth-straight time