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Enormous swings against Queensland Labor in two by-elections have highlighted Premier Steven Miles’s difficult challenge to retain power in October. The Miles government appears certain to have lost the safe seat of Ipswich West after an 18 per cent swing gave Ipswich Show Society president Darren Zanow and the Liberal National Party a 2.9 per cent margin.
Queensland voters send Miles government a pre-election message. The LNP also cannoned through a 28 per cent margin former premier Annastacia Palaszczuk built up in Inala before retiring in 2023. Labor’s primary vote fell to a historic low of 36 per cent but projections on Sunday had candidate Margie Nightingale retaining the seat in Brisbane’s southwest on a seven per cent margin, beating out the LNP’s Trang Yen.
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