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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 13 June 1998 to elect the 89 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.The result of the election was a second consecutive hung parliament, with the Australian Labor Party forming minority government after receiving the support of independent Peter Wellington. This election was the first in which One Nation Party supporters were elected into state Parliament, with the controversial party winning 11 seats. With nearly 23% of the vote, One Nation gained a higher percentage of the vote than any other third party (non-Labor or Coalition) in any State or Territory since Federation. This was also the only election where a third party has gained more votes than both the Liberal and National parties (considered separately). As a result of the high One Nation vote, any 2PP result would have been virtually meaningless and was not counted. A few months after the election, the One Nation member for Mulgrave Charles Rappolt resigned, and the Australian Labor Party candidate won the subsequent by-election, resulting in the ALP holding a majority in the Legislative Assembly.The fact that the Coalition Government came to office as a direct result of the 1996 Mundingburra by-election instead of the general election the previous year and that it was not elected in its own right at the 1998 election meant that the 1998 election was fourth consecutive election victory for the ALP having won every general election since 1989.. }

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