Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)

Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch)
Leader	Annastacia Palaszczuk
Deputy Leader	Jackie Trad
President	John Battams [1]
Secretary	Julie-Ann Campbell [2]
Headquarters	16 Peel St, South Brisbane
Youth wing	Queensland Young Labor
National affiliation	Australian Labor Party
Queensland Legislative Assembly	48 / 93
Australian House of Representatives (Qld seats)	8 / 30
Australian Senate (Qld seats)	4 / 12
Brisbane City Council	5 / 26
Website
www.queenslandlabor.org
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The Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), commonly known as Queensland Labor is the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party.^[3]

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 32 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]

• Thomas Glassey (August 1892 - May 1893)
• John Hoolan (May 1893 - July 1894)
• Thomas Glassey (July 1894 - May 1899)
• Anderson Dawson (May 1899 - July 1900)
• William Browne (July 1900 - October 1903)
• Peter Airey (October 1903 - April 1904)
• George Kerr (April 1904 - April 1907)
• David Bowman (April 1907 - September 1912)
• T. J. Ryan (September 1912 - October 1919)
• Ted Theodore (October 1919 - February 1925)
• William Gillies (February 1925 - October 1925)
• William McCormack (October 1925 - May 1929)
• William Forgan Smith (May 1929 - September 1942)
• Frank Cooper (September 1942 - March 1946)
• Ned Hanlon (March 1946 - January 1952)
• Vince Gair (January 1952 - April 1957)
• Jack Duggan (April 1957 - August 1957)
• Les Wood (August 1957 - March 1958)
• Jim Donald (April 1958 - August 1958)
• Jack Duggan (August 1958 - October 1966)
• Jack Houston (October 1966 - July 1974)
• Perc Tucker (July 1974 - December 1974)
• Tom Burns (December 1974 - November 1978)
• Ed Casey (November 1978 - October 1982)
• Keith Wright (October 1982 - August 1984)
• Nev Warburton (August 1984 - March 1988)
• Wayne Goss (March 1988 - February 1996)
• Peter Beattie (February 1996 - September 2007)
• Anna Bligh (September 2007 - March 2012)
• Annastacia Palaszczuk (March 2012 - present)

State election results

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

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