Nominations closed today for the Queensland state election, with the full list of candidates now announced.
I have compiled my spreadsheet and am still working on collecting links for all the candidates and plan to have the final candidate lists up by tomorrow morning.
Overall there was a drop in the total number of candidates from a record high of 597 in 2020 to 525 this year, but that number is still the second-highest in Queensland history. The previous highest were 438 in 1998 and 453 in 2017, with 2012 and 2015 not far behind. The number of seats in the parliament expanded from 89 to 93 in 2017, so it’s a bit harder to compare but all three had around 4.8-4.9 candidates per seat. In comparison, 2020 had 6.4, and 2024 has 5.6.
Four parties have run a full ticket across every seat: Labor, LNP, Greens and One Nation. The first three of those parties ran full tickets in 2020, while One Nation had run in all but three seats.
Family First are running 59 candidates, and Legalise Cannabis is running 29. That’s a slight increase for Legalise Cannabis, while Family First didn’t run in 2020. Clive Palmer’s UAP ran in a majority of seats in 2020, but are nowhere to be seen in 2024.
There was a big drop in the numbers of independents from 69 to 38.
I’m in the middle of a few other projects so I’ll leave it there. Antony Green’s blog post includes a lot more historical data.