All 89 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 45 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
Registered
1,780,785 13.9%
Turnout
1,623,637 (91.18%) (0.07 pp)
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Wayne Goss
Russell Cooper
Angus Innes
Party
Labor
National
Liberal
Leader since
2 March 1988
25 September 1989
31 January 1988
Leader's seat
Logan
Roma
Sherwood
Last election
30 seats, 41.35%
49 seats, 39.64%
10 seats, 16.50%
Seats before
29 seats[a]
46 seats[b][c]
11 seats[b]
Seats won
54 seats
27 seats
8 seats
Seat change
25
19
3
Popular vote
792,466
379,364
331,562
Percentage
50.32%
24.09%
21.05%
Swing
8.97 pp
15.55 pp
4.55 pp
TPP
53.8%
46.2%
TPP swing
7.80 pp
7.80 pp
Winning margin by electorate.
Premier before election
Russell Cooper
National
Elected Premier
Wayne Goss
Labor
The 1989 Queensland state election was held in the Australian state of Queensland on 2 December 1989 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. This was the first election following the downfall of seven-term premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen at the end of 1987.
The government was led by Premier and leader of the National Party, Russell Cooper; the opposition was led by Opposition Leader and leader of the Labor Party, Wayne Goss, while the Liberal Party was led by Angus Innes.
The National government, which had been in power since the 1957 election and had governed in its own right since the dissolution of the state coalition at the 1983 election, was defeated; the election was a landslide win for the Labor Party, which gained 24 seats. Labor also won more than 50% of the primary vote. Until 2012, it was the worst defeat of a sitting government in Queensland history.
Since this election, Queensland Labor has won 11 of 12 state elections which have been held since, most recently in 2020.
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