Queensland Legislative Election, 2001

The result of the election was the return of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) government of Premier Peter Beattie , with an increased majority.

RESULT SUMMARY

The ALP won nine seats from the , Broadwater , Burleigh , Burnett , Gaven , Glasshouse , Redlands , Southport , and Toowoomba North .

The , Clayfield , Indooroopilly , Kawana , Mudgereeba and Noosa .

All six members of the City Country Alliance , the splinter group from One Nation , lost their seats. Burdekin , Hervey Bay , Ipswich West , Pumicestone and Whitsunday went to the ALP while Lockyer was lost to One Nation.

SEATS WON BY THE ALP

Albert (gain from Nationals)

Algester (retain)

Ashgrove (retain)

Aspley (gain from Liberals)

Barron River (retain)

Brisbane Central (retain)

Broadwater (gain from Nationals)

Bulimba (retain)

Bundaberg (retain)

Bundamba (retain)

Burdekin (gain from City Country Alliance)

Burleigh (gain from Nationals)

Burnett (gain from Nationals)

Cairns (retain)

Capalaba (retain)

Charters Towers (gain from Nationals)

Chatsworth (retain)

Clayfield (gain from Liberals)

Cleveland (retain)

Cook (retain)

Currumbin (retain)

Everton (retain)

Ferny Grove (retain)

Fitzroy (retain)

Gaven (gain from Nationals)

Glasshouse (gain from Nationals)

Greenslopes (retain)

Hervey Bay (gain from City Country Alliance)

Inala (retain)

Indooroopilly (gain from Liberals)

Ipswich (retain)

Ipswich West (gain from City Country Alliance)

Kallangur (retain)

Kawana (gain from Liberals)

Kurwongbah (retain)

Logan (retain)

Lytton (retain)

Mackay (retain)

Mount Coot-tha (retain)

Mount Gravatt (retain)

Mount Isa (retain)

Mount Ommaney (retain)

Mudgeereba (gain from Liberals)

Mulgrave (retain)

Mundingburra (retain)

Murrumba (retain)

Noosa (gain from Liberals)

Nudgee (retain)

Pumicestone (gain from City Country Alliance)

Redcliffe (retain)

Redlands (gain from Nationals)

Rockhampton (retain)

Sandgate (retain)

South Brisbane (retain)

Southport (gain from Nationals)

Springwood (retain)

Stafford (retain)

Stretton (retain)

Thuringowa (gain from Ken Turner )

Toowoomba North (gain from Nationls)

Townsville (retain)

Waterford (retain)

Whitsunday (gain from City Country Alliance)

Woodridge (retain)

Yeerongpilly (retain)

SEATS WON BY THE NATIONALS

Beaudesert (retain)

Callide (retain)

Cunningham (retain)

Gregory (retain)

Hinchinbrook (retain)

Keppel (retain)

Maroochydore (retain)

Mirani (retain)

Southern Downs (retain)

Surfers Paradise (retain)

Toowoomba South (retain)

Warrego (retain)

SEATS WON BY THE LIBERAL PARTY

Caloundra (retain)

Moggill (retain)

Robina (retain)

SEATS WON BY THE ONE NATION PARTY (ONP)

Gympie (gain from Nationals)

Lockyer (gain from City Country Alliance)

Tablelands (gain from Shaun Nelson )

SEATS WON BY INDEPENDENTS

Darling Downs (gain from Nationals by Ray Hopper )

Gladstone (retain by Liz Cunningham )

Maryborough (retain by John Kingston )

Nanango (retain by Dorothy Pratt ---)

Nicklin (retain by Peter Wellington )

Pratt was elected as a One Nation candidate in 1998 , but resigned from the party and retained her seat as an independent.

SUBSEQUENT CHANGES

After losing the election, Opposition Leader Rob Borbidge ( Surfers Paradise ) resigned his position as Leader of the Nationals and his seat. In the resulting by-election, held on 5 May 2001 , Surfers Paradise was won by Lex Bell , an independent former mayor. Borbidge was replaced as Nationals leader by Mike Horan ( Toowoomba South ), who in turn was replaced by Lawrence Springborg ( Southern Downs ) in February 2003 .

Dr David Watson ( Moggill ) resigned as Leader of the Liberal Party in favour of Bob Quinn ( Robina ) on 28 February 2001 .

Ray Hopper ( Darling Downs ), after being elected as an Independent, joined the National Party in December 2001 .

On 18 April 2002 , Elisa Roberts ( Gympie ) resigned from the One Nation Party and sat as an Independent, reducing that party's total to two seats.

On 23 March 2003 , John Kingston ( Maryborough ), a former member of One Nation now sitting as an independent, resigned his seat. Chris Foley , another independent, won the by-election on 8 May .

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Queensland Legislative Election, 2001