Polls have just opened in Queensland for election day.
We now have three major polling companies giving us the same figures for the statewide two-party-preferred vote: Galaxy, Reachtel and Newspoll are all giving the LNP 52% and ALP 48%. If those numbers are true, the ALP should gain a lot of seats, but probably not enough to win government.
In the meantime, another poll has indicated that Campbell Newman will lose in his seat of Ashgrove, with Newspoll giving Kate Jones 55% of the two-party-preferred vote.
If you’re voting today, good luck. This will be the first major test of Queensland’s new voter ID laws.
It’s easier to vote if you have ID, and there are a wide range of forms of ID you can use (including the letter you should have received from the ECQ), but if you don’t have ID, you can still vote.
There have been a disturbing number of cases of casual ECQ staff, both on the hotline and at pre-poll, telling voters that they can’t vote if they don’t have ID, or if their ID doesn’t match their name on the roll. If that happens to you, it’d be good to know about it, so post a comment below.
Otherwise, good luck voting. I’ll be back at 6pm Brisbane time to start covering the results, and I’ll be on 2SER from 8pm-9pm Sydney time (7pm-8pm Brisbane time) tonight.
Poor Queensland, just like those GOP Southern American states.
Love your work Benjamin. Thank you for providing such an insightful, detailed forum. Whilst not everyone will, obviously, get their desired result, it will regardless be the result that is right for Queensland at this time. I just hope we don’t have a hung parliament (I wish there were something that could be done regulatory to prevent such a shambles from occurring) or another massive majority, regardless of the colour. As some would argue, that is a scenario that has proven most unsavoury.
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