Devastating losses in regional Queensland show Labor is increasingly being consigned to the cities

Queensland Labor leader and outgoing premier Steven Miles has mitigated his party’s losses in the urban south-east, but was hit hard in northern, central and western Queensland. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

The Queensland electorate has delivered a change of government, but it was not the overwhelming Labor defeat expected at the start of the campaign and has left the ALP with a sizeable opposition.

Labor clawed back support during the campaign and only suffered modest losses in the south-east of the state.