1974 Queensland state election

Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 7 December 1974 to elect the 82 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

The National–Liberal Coalition won a third consecutive victory under Joh Bjelke-Petersen, and the seventh consecutive victory for the National Party in Queensland, which had renamed itself from the Country Party since the previous election. The Labor Party lost two-thirds of its seats, including that of leader Perc Tucker, its worst showing in an election until 2012 and thus a landslide victory for the Coalition.

Labor was reduced to only 11 seats, leading observers to call Labor's caucus a "cricket team." William Bowe of Crikey wrote that for years, the election stood as "the gold standard for Australian election massacres".

Key dates

Results

Seats changing hands

• Members listed in italics did not recontest their seats.

Post-election pendulum

See also

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1972–1974
• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1974–1977
• Candidates of the Queensland state election, 1974
• Bjelke-Petersen Ministry

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