Voters in the once-safe Labor seats of Inala and Ipswich West have sent the government a strong message ahead of October’s state poll – and it wasn’t positive.
Enormous swings against Queensland Labor in two byelections have highlighted Premier Steven Miles’s difficult challenge to retain power in October.
Labor’s primary vote fell to a historic low of 36 per cent, but projections on Sunday had candidate Margie Nightingale retaining the seat in Brisbane’s south-west on a 7 per cent margin, beating out the LNP’s Trang Yen. Queenslander David Littleproud says everyone in both federal and state Labor should be very concerned by Saturday’s election results.The pain continued for Labor in the Brisbane City Council elections, in which the party suffered a 5.5 per cent fall in primary votes, as 800,000 voters kept the LNP in power at City Hall.
Contested for the first time in 1992, the Inala electorate was initially held by Palaszczuk’s father, Henry.
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