Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has formally announced Queenslanders will go to the polls early on November 25.
The Premier says her campaign will be about "Putting Queenslanders First".
"In 2015, I promised Queenslanders that there was a better way. My government is proving there is a better way. My government is restoring health and education services for all Queenslanders. My government is putting Queenslanders first. I'm asking Queenslanders for their support so I can continue the job that we have started together."
Launching the LNP's campaign, leader Tim Nicholls urged voters to get behind the party, saying it represents the alternative to what he calls the failures of the Premier and Labor party.
LNP leader Tim Nicholls pledged to lift the payroll tax threshold by $25,000 a year over the next decade as part of a broader economic package to stimulate 500,000 new jobs.
93 MPs will be elected — up from 89 — in the first expansion of Parliament in 32 years, therefore forty-seven is the number of seats needed for either of the major parties to govern in their own right in the state's one-house parliament.
The re-introduction of compulsory preferential voting for this election, means preference deals, particularly between the LNP and One Nation, are expected to be significant.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation party may end up with the balance of power in Queensland after the November 25 election, with both Labor and the LNP on a low primary vote of around 30 per cent.
But both the premier and LNP leader Tim Nicholls have ruled out any preference deal with One Nation.
The election winner will have a fixed term of just under three years, instead of the four years mandated under new electoral reforms that come into effect in the new year.
