1986 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 1 November 1986 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly . It followed a redistribution which increased the number of seats in the Assembly from 82 to 89. The election resulted in a seventh consecutive term for the National Party under Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen . It was the 11th consecutive term for the National Party in Queensland since it first came to office in 1957. The Nationals secured a majority in their own right, with 49 seats. It is the only time that the Nationals have ever won enough seats to govern alone in an election at any level. They had come up one seat short of an outright majority in 1983 , but picked up a majority after persuading two Liberals to cross the floor . This was the last time that a non-Labor Government was elected at a Queensland state election until 2012 , although the Coalition briefly held government from 1996 to 1998 following the Mundingburra by-election .Key dates Overview All three parties had high hopes for the election. The Nationals knew that they needed to increase their number of seats in order to hang onto Government. The Liberals desperately needed to win back some of their losses from their disastrous performance in 1983, and Labor hoped to exploit disunity between the conservative parties to make gains. The already malapportioned boundaries had been redrawn earlier in the year in a manner which further advantaged the National Party.Result The Bjelke-Petersen Government won a commanding victory, winning an extra eight seats and thus increasing its majority. The Liberals gained two seats, but were still nowhere near making up for their 1983 losses. Labor lost two seats.Seats changing hands Members in italics did not recontest their seats. In addition, the Liberal party gained Stafford in the 1984 by-election , and retained it this election. Caboolture was a notionally Labor-held seat and Townsville was a notionally National-held seat in the redistribution before the election.Post-election pendulum NATIONAL SEATS - - - Marginal - - - Maryborough Gilbert Alison NAT 0.7% Broadsound Denis HintonNAT 2.0% Pine RiversYvonne Chapman NAT 3.6% Mulgrave Max MenzelNAT 3.7% Warrego Howard Hobbs NAT 3.7% Redlands Paul Clauson NAT 3.8% Barron River Martin TenniNAT 4.0% Aspley Beryce Nelson NAT 4.1% Greenslopes Leisha Harvey NAT 4.2% Townsville Tony Burreket NAT 4.4% Mansfield Craig Sherrin NAT 5.5% Fairly safe - - - Merthyr Don Lane NAT 6.0% Springwood Huan Fraser NAT 6.2% Mount Gravatt Ian Henderson NAT 6.7% Glass House Bill Newton NAT 6.9% Hinchinbrook Ted Row NAT 6.9% Isis Lin Powell NAT 7.4% Toowoomba North Sandy McPhie NAT 7.6% Mirani Jim Randell NAT 8.3% Tablelands Tom Gilmore NAT 8.7% Currumbin Leo GatelyNAT 8.9% Whitsunday Geoff Muntz NAT 9.0% Nerang Tom Hynd NAT 9.9% Safe - - - Cooroora Gordon Simpson NAT 10.6% Flinders Bob Katter NAT 10.8% Nicklin Brian Austin NAT 10.9% Landsborough Mike Ahern NAT 11.6% Burdekin Mark Stoneman NAT 11.9% Albert Ivan Gibbs NAT 13.1% Fassifern Kev Lingard NAT 13.1% Callide Di McCauley NAT 13.2% Gregory Bill Glasson NAT 13.5% South Coast Russ Hinze NAT 13.7% Southport Doug Jennings NAT 13.7% Auburn Neville Harper NAT 14.0% Somerset Bill Gunn NAT 14.0% Gympie Len Stephan NAT 14.8% Burnett Doug Slack NAT 15.1% Toowoomba South Clive BerghoferNAT 15.8% Peak Downs Vince Lester NAT 17.0% Carnarvon Peter McKechnie NAT 17.1% Roma Russell Cooper NAT 19.5% Surfers Paradise Rob Borbidge NAT 21.3% Warwick Des Booth NAT 22.1% Balonne Don Neal NAT 24.1% Lockyer Tony Fitzgerald NAT 25.1% Barambah Joh Bjelke-Petersen NAT 27.5% Condamine Brian Littleproud NAT 28.5% Cunningham Tony Elliott NAT 29.9%
Significance The 1986 election is significant for a number of reasons. It saw the National Party retain a majority of seats in the Parliament, and it was only the second election in Australian history in which the National Party won enough seats to form Government in its own right. More importantly, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen's victory gave him the confidence to launch the 'Joh for Canberra' campaign, which would play a major part in the 1987 federal election , and would later be a major factor in his undoing.
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