The Newman government made necessary tough decisions during its term and that has cost it at the polls, Transport Minister Scott Emerson says.
The LNP is in serious danger of losing office after just one term and three years after it crushed Labor at Teh 2012 election.
"I think what we've seen tonight is we had to make tough decisions for the sake of the state and sometimes you make the decisions that are tough even if they're not in your best political interests," Mr Emerson told the ABC on Saturday.
"But the reality is what we inherited was a situation that was unsustainable and we couldn't keep having a situation in $85 billion of debt, those health payroll debacles, the massive waiting lists, the lack of maintenance on our schools.
"Unfortunately tonight some MPs have lost their seats probably because of those tough decisions but they were still the right decisions to make."
Mr Emerson, who retained his seat of Indooroopilly, said the party would spend the next days and weeks analysing what went wrong.
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