The 2024 Queensland state election is scheduled to be held on 26 October 2024 to elect all members to the

Legislative Assembly of Queensland The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembl ...

pursuant to the ''Constitution (Fixed Term Parliament) Amendment Act 2015''. As a result of the

2016 Queensland term length referendum The Queensland fixed four-year terms referendum was a one-question referendum held in the Australian state of Queensland on 19 March 2016, in conjunction with the state's local government elections. Electors were asked if they approved of a bill ...

, the term of the parliament will run for four years.Queensland referendum: Vote on four-year parliamentary terms passes
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Electoral system

Queensland has

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and uses full-preference

instant-runoff voting Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a type of ranked preferential voting method. It uses a majority voting rule in single-winner elections where there are more than two candidates. It is commonly referred to as ranked-choice voting (RCV) in the Un ...

for

single-member electorates A single-member district is an electoral district represented by a single officeholder. It contrasts with a multi-member district, which is represented by multiple officeholders. Single-member districts are also sometimes called single-winner vot ...

. The election will be conducted by the Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ). The party or

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that wins the majority of seats (at least 47) will form the government. If no majority emerges then the party or coalition that is able to command the confidence of the Legislative Assembly will form government. The party or coalition that wins the second highest number of seats forms the opposition, with the remaining parties and independents candidates being allocated to the cross bench. The Queensland Parliament is the only

unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one. Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...

state parliament in Australia, composed of the Legislative Assembly. The upper house, the ''

Queensland Legislative Council The Queensland Legislative Council was the upper house of the parliament in the Australian state of Queensland. It was a fully nominated body which first took office on 1 May 1860. It was abolished by the Constitution Amendment Act 1921, which to ...

'' was abolished in 1922.

Key dates

The election will be for all 93 members of the Legislative Assembly. Pursuant to
Constitution (Fixed Term Parliament) Amendment Act 2015
' Queensland has fixed terms, with all elections following the 2020 election held every four years on the last Saturday of October. The

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may call an election earlier than scheduled if the Government does not maintain confidence, or the annual

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fails to pass.

Electoral pendulum

; Notes

Opinion Polling

Graphical Summary

Primary voting graph

Two-party preferred graph

Preferred Premier

Palaszczuk Approval Ratings

Crisafulli Approval Ratings

Voting Intention

Preferred Premier and leadership polling table

References

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2020s in Queensland