Pauline Hanson has retained her seat in the Senate for another term, with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) officially declaring that she was fifth in the Queensland Upper House race.
Anthony Chisholm of Labor was expected to finish fifth, but Hanson overtook him and placed him in sixth and final place.
It means National Liberal Party Senator Amanda Stoker has lost her seat.
Senator Hanson, 68, has been elected to a second six-year term, after entering the Senate as a nation’s candidate in 2016.
Senator Stoker leaves after being placed in the Senate by the LNP in 2018 when George Brandis resigned.
Ms Hanson, who previously represented the House of Commons in Oxley, West Brisbane, received 191,156 first-choice votes.
As a party, One Nation polled just over half the amount needed for a quota in Queensland.
Deputy Attorney General Amanda Stoker on Senate Estimates October 25, 2021. (ABC News: Ian Cutmore)
With Ms. Stoker losing her seat, the traditional Queensland Senate division of three right-wing and three left-wing senators has been restored.
The Brisbane lawyer worked in corporate law before first joining the Senate in 2018, where she became an advocate for her government’s religious discrimination bill.
The mother of three served as Deputy Minister of Women, Labor Relations and the Attorney General’s Office during her tenure.
While the AEC has officially declared the Queensland winners today, the ABC election calculator had already called for five of the six seats.
Labor MP Murray Watt and Anthony Chisholm have been re-elected, along with James McGrath and Matt Canavan of the LNP.
Penny Allman-Payne of the Greens also won a seat.
There are six seats in the Senate to play in each state in each federal election
AEC’s official statement today confirms that Clive Palmer of the United Australia party did not win a seat.
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