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Labor appears to have lost Petrie in Qld

Outgoing parliamentary secretary Yvette D'Ath appears to have been defeated in the marginal Labor-held seat of Petrie in Brisbane.

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Labor's Yvette D'Ath appears to have lost the marginal seat of Petrie in Brisbane's north.

The Australian Electoral Commission is no longer listing the electorate as one of its close seats.

Liberal candidate Luke Howarth is ahead by 767 votes, with 50.57 per cent of the two-party preferred vote.

Ms D'Ath, the outgoing parliamentary secretary for climate change, went into Saturday's federal election defending a 2.5 per cent margin and suffered a 3.08 per cent swing against her.

She won the seat in 2007 against then Liberal MP Teresa Gambaro.

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The Rockhampton-centred electorate of Capricornia is the only Queensland seat which is still classified as close.

Labor's Peter Freeleagus leads Liberal National Party candidate Michelle Landry by 140 votes, with 50.1 per cent of votes after preferences.

Kirsten Livermore had held the seat for Labor since 1998.

Labor went into the election holding eight of Queensland's 30 seats, but stands to lose one or two of them.


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