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]

This article is about the current Queensland branch of the federal Labor Party. For the defunct breakaway Labor party from 1957–1978, see Queensland Labor Party.

Queensland Labor
LeaderAnnastacia Palaszczuk
Deputy LeaderSteven Miles
SecretaryJulie-Ann Campbell[1]
PresidentJohn Battams[2]
Founded1892 (1892)
HeadquartersSouth Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Think tankT. J. Ryan Foundation
Youth wingQueensland Young Labor
National affiliationAustralian Labor Party
Legislative Assembly
52 / 93
Brisbane City Council
5 / 26
House of Representatives
6 / 30
(Qld seats)
Senate
3 / 12
(Qld seats)
Website
queenslandlabor.org

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]

Election results

State Elections
Election Leader Seats won ± Total votes % ±% Position
1893 Thomas Glassey
16 / 72
 16 25,984 33.32% 33.3% Opposition
1896
20 / 72
 4 28,581 34.97% 1.7% Opposition
1899
21 / 72
 1 33,756 35.47% 0.5% Opposition
1902 William Browne
25 / 72
 4 39,579 39.33% 3.9% Opposition
1904 George Kerr
34 / 72
 9 28,961 36.05% 3.3% Opposition
1907 David Bowman
18 / 72
 16 52,079 26.39% 9.7% Opposition
1908
22 / 72
 4 55,771 29.80% 3.4% Opposition
1909
27 / 72
 5 77,712 36.85% 7.1% Opposition
1912
25 / 72
 2 100,878 46.70% 9.9% Opposition
1915 T. J. Ryan
45 / 72
 20 136,419 52.06% 5.4% Majority government
1918
48 / 72
 3 180,709 53.68% 1.6% Majority government
1920 Ted Theodore
38 / 72
 7 168,455 47.77% 5.9% Majority government
1923
43 / 72
 5 175,659 48.13% 0.4% Majority government
1926 William McCormack
43 / 72
 0 189,968 47.96% 0.2% Majority government
1929
27 / 72
 16 173,242 40.16% 7.8% Opposition
1932 William Forgan Smith
33 / 62
 6 225,270 49.89% 9.7% Majority government
1935
46 / 62
 13 247,135 53.43% 3.6% Majority government
1938
44 / 62
 2 250,943 47.17% 6.3% Majority government
1941
41 / 62
 3 267,206 51.41% 4.2% Majority government
1944 Frank Cooper
37 / 62
 4 224,888 44.67% 6.7% Majority government
1947 Ned Hanlon
35 / 62
 2 272,103 43.58% 1.1% Majority government
1950
42 / 75
 7 295,138 46.87% 3.3% Majority government
1953 Vince Gair
50 / 75
 8 323,882 53.21% 6.3% Majority government
1956
49 / 75
 1 335,311 51.22% 2.0% Majority government
1957 Jack Duggan
20 / 75
 29 201,971 28.90% 22.3% Opposition
1960
25 / 78
 5 296,430 39.89% 11.0% Opposition
1963
26 / 78
 1 337,928 43.83% 3.9% Opposition
1966
26 / 78
 0 350,254 43.84% 0.0% Opposition
1969 Jack Houston
31 / 78
 5 383,388 44.99% 1.2% Opposition
1972
33 / 82
 2 424,002 46.75% 1.8% Opposition
1974 Perc Tucker
11 / 82
 22 376,187 36.03% 10.7% Opposition
1977 Tom Burns
23 / 82
 12 466,021 42.83% 6.8% Opposition
1980 Ed Casey
25 / 82
 2 487,493 41.49% 1.3% Opposition
1983 Keith Wright
32 / 82
 7 579,363 43.98% 2.5% Opposition
1986 Nev Warburton
30 / 89
 2 577,062 41.35% 2.6% Opposition
1989 Wayne Goss
54 / 89
 24 792,466 50.32% 9.0% Majority government
1992
54 / 89
 0 850,480 48.73% 1.6% Majority government
1995
45 / 89
 9 773,585 42.89% 5.8% Majority government
1998 Peter Beattie
44 / 89
 1 773,585 38.86% 4.0% Minority government
2001
66 / 89
 22 1,007,737 48.93% 10.1% Majority government
2004
63 / 89
 3 1,011,630 47.01% 1.9% Majority government
2006
59 / 89
 4 1,032,617 46.92% 0.1% Majority government
2009 Anna Bligh
51 / 89
 8 1,002,415 42.25% 4.7% Majority government
2012
7 / 89
 44 652,092 26.66% 15.6% Opposition
2015 Annastacia Palaszczuk
44 / 89
 35 983,054 37.47% 10.8% Minority government
2017
48 / 93
 4 957,890 35.43% 2.0% Majority government
2020
52 / 93
 4 1,135,625 39.58% 4.15% Majority government

National Elections
Election Seats Won ± total Votes % ±
2010
8 / 30
 7 800,712 33.58% 9.33%
2013
6 / 30
 2 751,230 29.77% 3.81%
2016
8 / 30
 2 825,627 30.91% 1.14%
2019
6 / 30
 2 754,792 26.68% 4.23%

References
  1. "Julie-Ann Campbell". Queensland Labor. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  2. "John Battams". Queensland Labor. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  3. "Queensland Labor". Queensland Labor. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. Queensland Parliamentary Record: The 54th Parliament (PDF). Parliament of Queensland.
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