Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss has dismissed federal factors as playing a part in the Queensland election.
He says the "absolute, dominant" issue of the campaign was the Liberal National Party's plan to lease public assets.
Mr Truss says no leading federal figures were in Queensland over the last week and he denied the unpopularity of prime minister had swayed voters.
"It was very clearly an issue, a campaign, that was run on state matters," he said.
"Obviously every government in Australia needs to look at an election like this one and seek to learn from the experience and make sure any errors that were made are not repeated."
Mr Truss would not say privatisation was "electoral poison", but said voters had decided it was a key issue.
"It's clear that the public were prepared to put aside having magnificent improvements to our roads, and rail, and schools, and hospitals in this state because they didn't want it to be funded my leased assets," he said.
"That's a rather brave decision that people have made, because I think they're still going to complain about the roads not being good enough and the hospital services not being everything that they want, but essential that's the decision that the voters have made and that has to be respected."
He said the LNP had achieved such an extraordinary victory, winning 78 of 89 seats, and it needed to work out what went wrong.
Mr Truss also said it was still too early to call who would be premier or for the party to concede defeat.
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