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.
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."Results
Seats changing hands
- Members in italics did not recontest their seats.
Post-election pendulum
| NATIONAL/LIBERAL SEATS | - | - | - |
| Marginal | - | - | - |
| Wynnum | Bill Lamond | NAT | 0.1% |
| Ipswich West | Albert Hales | NAT | 0.5% |
| Barron River | Martin Tenni | NAT | 0.7% |
| Warrego | Neil Turner | NAT | 1.0% |
| Brisbane | Harold Lowes | LIB | 1.2% |
| Baroona | Dennis Young | LIB | 1.7% |
| Mourilyan | Vicky Kippin | NAT | 1.7% |
| Cooroora | Gordon Simpson | NAT | 2.1% v LIB |
| Toowoomba North | John Lockwood | LIB | 2.3% |
| Cook | Eric Deeral | NAT | 2.6% |
| Everton | Brian Lindsay | LIB | 2.7% |
| Mount Isa | Angelo Bertoni | NAT | 3.5% |
| Belmont | David Byrne | LIB | 3.6% |
| Townsville West | Max Hooper | NAT | 3.6% |
| Isis | Lin Powell | NAT | 4.1% |
| South Brisbane | Colin Lamont | LIB | 5.0% |
| Salisbury | Rosemary Kyburz | LIB | 5.4% |
| Maryborough | Gilbert Alison | LIB | 5.9% |
| Fairly safe | - | - | - |
| Belyando | Vince Lester | NAT | 7.4% |
| Toowoomba South | John Warner | NAT | 7.7% |
| Redlands | John Goleby | NAT | 9.7% |
| Safe | - | - | - |
| Albert | Ivan Gibbs | NAT | 10.1% |
| Hinchinbrook | Ted Row | NAT | 10.4% |
| Kurilpa | Sam Doumany | LIB | 11.0% |
| Stafford | Terry Gygar | LIB | 11.7% |
| Pine Rivers | Rob Akers | LIB | 11.9% |
| Gregory | Bill Glasson | NAT | 12.0% |
| Redcliffe | Jim Houghton | NAT | 12.1% |
| Whitsunday | Ron Camm | NAT | 12.2% |
| Murrumba | Des Frawley | NAT | 13.7% |
| Flinders | Bob Katter | NAT | 13.8% |
| Nundah | William Knox | LIB | 13.8% |
| Mulgrave | Roy Armstrong | NAT | 14.8% |
| Ithaca | Col Miller | LIB | 15.4% |
| Wavell | Arthur Crawford | LIB | 15.4% |
| Windsor | Bob Moore | LIB | 15.7% |
| Merthyr | Don Lane | LIB | 16.6% |
| Townsville | Norman Scott-Young | LIB | 17.0% |
| Chatsworth | Bill Hewitt | LIB | 17.7% |
| South Coast | Russ Hinze | NAT | 17.7% |
| Yeronga | Norm Lee | LIB | 17.9% |
| Ashgrove | John Greenwood | LIB | 18.5% |
| Clayfield | John Murray | LIB | 18.5% |
| Mount Gravatt | Geoff Chinchen | LIB | 19.0% |
| Ipswich | Llewellyn Edwards | LIB | 19.1% |
| Mirani | Tom Newbery | NAT | 19.6% |
| Greenslopes | Keith Hooper | LIB | 20.2% |
| Burdekin | Val Bird | NAT | 20.3% |
| Callide | Lindsay Hartwig | NAT | 20.8% |
| Carnarvon | Peter McKechnie | NAT | 21.6% |
| Toowong | Charles Porter | LIB | 21.6% |
| Mansfield | Bill Kaus | LIB | 22.2% |
| Surfers Paradise | Bruce Small | NAT | 22.5% |
| Landsborough | Mike Ahern | NAT | 22.6% |
| Roma | Ken Tomkins | NAT | 22.6% |
| Sherwood | John Herbert | LIB | 22.7% |
| Fassifern | Selwyn Muller | NAT | 23.0% |
| Aspley | Fred Campbell | LIB | 23.1% |
| Gympie | Max Hodges | NAT | 23.6% |
| Burnett | Claude Wharton | NAT | 24.1% |
| Warwick | David Cory | NAT | 24.8% |
| Balonne | Don Neal | NAT | 25.4% |
| Lockyer | Gordon Chalk | LIB | 25.6% |
| Mount Coot-tha | Bill Lickiss | LIB | 26.9% |
| Auburn | Neville Hewitt | NAT | 27.9% |
| Somerset | Bill Gunn | NAT | 28.3% |
| Condamine | Vic Sullivan | NAT | 29.3% |
| Barambah | Joh Bjelke-Petersen | NAT | 33.4% |
| Cunningham | Tony Elliott | NAT | 36.5% |
