All 82 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 42 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Turnout
89.42 ( 2.99 pp)
First party
Second party
Leader
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Perc Tucker
Party
Country–Liberal Coalition
Labor
Leader since
8 August 1968
1 July 1974 (1974-07-01)
Leader's seat
Barambah
Townsville West (lost seat)
Last election
47 seats, 42.23%
33 seats, 46.75%
Seats won
69
11
Seat change
22
22
Popular vote
615,770
376,187
Percentage
58.97%
36.03%
Swing
16.75
10.72
Premier before election
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
National/Liberal coalition
Elected Premier
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
National/Liberal coalition
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 7 December 1974[1] to elect the 82 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.[1]
The National-Liberal Coalition won a third consecutive victory under Joh Bjelke-Petersen, and the seventh consecutive victory for the National Party in Queensland, which had renamed itself from the Country Party since the previous election. The Labor Party lost two-thirds of its seats, including that of leader Perc Tucker, its worst showing in an election until 2012 and thus a landslide victory for the Coalition.
Labor was reduced to only 11 seats, leading observers to call Labor's caucus a "cricket team." William Bowe of Crikey wrote that for years, the election stood as "the gold standard for Australian election massacres".[2]
^ ab"Parliament of Queensland, Legislative Assembly election results for 7 December 1974". Australian Politics and Elections Archive 1856-2018. University of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 10 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
^Bowe, William (26 March 2012). "The hole where Queensland Labor used to be". Crikey. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
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