Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
The Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), commonly known as Queensland Labor or as just Labor inside Queensland, is the state branch of the Australian Labor Party in the state of Queensland.[3]
Queensland Labor | |
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Leader | Annastacia Palaszczuk |
Deputy Leader | Steven Miles |
Secretary | Julie-Ann Campbell[1] |
President | John Battams[2] |
Founded | 1892 |
Headquarters | South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Think tank | T. J. Ryan Foundation |
Youth wing | Queensland Young Labor |
National affiliation | Australian Labor Party |
Legislative Assembly | 52 / 93 |
Brisbane City Council | 5 / 26 |
House of Representatives | 6 / 30 (Qld seats) |
Senate | 3 / 12 (Qld seats) |
Website | |
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History
Trade unionists in Queensland had begun attempting to secure parliamentary representation as early as the mid-1880s. William McNaughton Galloway, the president of the Seamen's Union, mounted an unsuccessful campaign as an independent in an 1886 by-election. A Workers' Political Reform Association was founded to nominate candidates for the 1888 election, at which the Brisbane Trades and Labor Council endorsed six candidates. Thomas Glassey won the seat of Bundamba at that election, becoming the first self-identified "labor" MP in Queensland. The Queensland Provincial Council of the Australian Labor Federation was formed in 1889 in an attempt to unite Labor campaign efforts. Tommy Ryan won the seat of Barcoo for the labour movement-run People's Parliamentary Association in 1892, and the Labor Party was formally established in Queensland following the first Labor-in-Politics Convention later that year.[4]
The Queensland branch subsequently formed the first Labor government in Australia, albeit briefly, when Anderson Dawson took office for a week in 1899 after a falling out between the non-Labor forces.[5]
Since 1989 when the party came back to power after thirty-two years in Opposition all its leaders have become Premiers despite two spells in Opposition in 1996–98 and 2012–2015.
Parliamentary leaders
The following figures have served as parliamentary leader of the Queensland state Labor Party:[6]
- Thomas Glassey (August 1892 – May 1893)
- John Hoolan (May 1893 – July 1894)
- Thomas Glassey (July 1894 – May 1899)
- Anderson Dawson (May 1899 – July 1900)
- William Browne (July 1900 – October 1903)
- Peter Airey (October 1903 – April 1904)
- George Kerr (April 1904 – April 1907)
- David Bowman (April 1907 – September 1912)
- T. J. Ryan (September 1912 – October 1919)
- Ted Theodore (October 1919 – February 1925)
- William Gillies (February 1925 – October 1925)
- William McCormack (October 1925 – May 1929)
- William Forgan Smith (May 1929 – September 1942)
- Frank Cooper (September 1942 – March 1946)
- Ned Hanlon (March 1946 – January 1952)
- Vince Gair (January 1952 – April 1957)
- Jack Duggan (April 1957 – August 1957)
- Les Wood (August 1957 – March 1958)
- Jim Donald (April 1958 – August 1958)
- Jack Duggan (August 1958 – October 1966)
- Jack Houston (October 1966 – July 1974)
- Perc Tucker (July 1974 – December 1974)
- Tom Burns (December 1974 – November 1978)
- Ed Casey (November 1978 – October 1982)
- Keith Wright (October 1982 – August 1984)
- Nev Warburton (August 1984 – March 1988)
- Wayne Goss (March 1988 – February 1996)
- Peter Beattie (February 1996 – September 2007)
- Anna Bligh (September 2007 – March 2012)
- Annastacia Palaszczuk (March 2012 – present)
Election results
State Elections
Election | Leader | Seats won | ± | Total votes | % | ±% | Position |
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1893 | Thomas Glassey | 16 / 72 |
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25,984 | 33.32% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1896 | 20 / 72 |
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28,581 | 34.97% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
1899 | 21 / 72 |
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33,756 | 35.47% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
1902 | William Browne | 25 / 72 |
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39,579 | 39.33% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1904 | George Kerr | 34 / 72 |
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28,961 | 36.05% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1907 | David Bowman | 18 / 72 |
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52,079 | 26.39% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1908 | 22 / 72 |
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55,771 | 29.80% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
1909 | 27 / 72 |
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77,712 | 36.85% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
1912 | 25 / 72 |
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100,878 | 46.70% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
1915 | T. J. Ryan | 45 / 72 |
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136,419 | 52.06% | ![]() |
Majority government |
1918 | 48 / 72 |
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180,709 | 53.68% | ![]() |
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1920 | Ted Theodore | 38 / 72 |
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168,455 | 47.77% | ![]() |
Majority government |
1923 | 43 / 72 |
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175,659 | 48.13% | ![]() |
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1926 | William McCormack | 43 / 72 |
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189,968 | 47.96% | ![]() |
Majority government |
1929 | 27 / 72 |
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173,242 | 40.16% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
1932 | William Forgan Smith | 33 / 62 |
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225,270 | 49.89% | ![]() |
Majority government |
1935 | 46 / 62 |
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247,135 | 53.43% | ![]() |
Majority government | |
1938 | 44 / 62 |
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250,943 | 47.17% | ![]() |
Majority government | |
1941 | 41 / 62 |
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267,206 | 51.41% | ![]() |
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1944 | Frank Cooper | 37 / 62 |
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224,888 | 44.67% | ![]() |
Majority government |
1947 | Ned Hanlon | 35 / 62 |
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272,103 | 43.58% | ![]() |
Majority government |
1950 | 42 / 75 |
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295,138 | 46.87% | ![]() |
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1953 | Vince Gair | 50 / 75 |
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323,882 | 53.21% | ![]() |
Majority government |
1956 | 49 / 75 |
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335,311 | 51.22% | ![]() |
Majority government | |
1957 | Jack Duggan | 20 / 75 |
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201,971 | 28.90% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1960 | 25 / 78 |
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296,430 | 39.89% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
1963 | 26 / 78 |
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337,928 | 43.83% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
1966 | 26 / 78 |
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350,254 | 43.84% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
1969 | Jack Houston | 31 / 78 |
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383,388 | 44.99% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1972 | 33 / 82 |
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424,002 | 46.75% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
1974 | Perc Tucker | 11 / 82 |
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376,187 | 36.03% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1977 | Tom Burns | 23 / 82 |
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466,021 | 42.83% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1980 | Ed Casey | 25 / 82 |
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487,493 | 41.49% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1983 | Keith Wright | 32 / 82 |
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579,363 | 43.98% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1986 | Nev Warburton | 30 / 89 |
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577,062 | 41.35% | ![]() |
Opposition |
1989 | Wayne Goss | 54 / 89 |
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792,466 | 50.32% | ![]() |
Majority government |
1992 | 54 / 89 |
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850,480 | 48.73% | ![]() |
Majority government | |
1995 | 45 / 89 |
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773,585 | 42.89% | ![]() |
Majority government | |
1998 | Peter Beattie | 44 / 89 |
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773,585 | 38.86% | ![]() |
Minority government |
2001 | 66 / 89 |
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1,007,737 | 48.93% | ![]() |
Majority government | |
2004 | 63 / 89 |
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1,011,630 | 47.01% | ![]() |
Majority government | |
2006 | 59 / 89 |
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1,032,617 | 46.92% | ![]() |
Majority government | |
2009 | Anna Bligh | 51 / 89 |
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1,002,415 | 42.25% | ![]() |
Majority government |
2012 | 7 / 89 |
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652,092 | 26.66% | ![]() |
Opposition | |
2015 | Annastacia Palaszczuk | 44 / 89 |
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983,054 | 37.47% | ![]() |
Minority government |
2017 | 48 / 93 |
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957,890 | 35.43% | ![]() |
Majority government | |
2020 | 52 / 93 |
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1,135,625 | 39.58% | ![]() |
Majority government |
References
- "Julie-Ann Campbell". Queensland Labor. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- "John Battams". Queensland Labor. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- "Queensland Labor". Queensland Labor. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- Fitzgerald, Ross & Thornton, Harold. Labor in Queensland: From the 1880s to 1988 (PDF). University of Queensland Press. pp. 1–11.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- Fitzgerald, Ross & Thornton, Harold. Labor in Queensland: From the 1880s to 1988. University of Queensland Press. p. 11.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- Queensland Parliamentary Record: The 54th Parliament (PDF). Parliament of Queensland.