The It’s Time factor hung over Labor in last weekend’s Queensland election after a decade of being in power, but a closing of the margin in public voting intention polling was inevitable as Polling Day loomed.

Labor says policies like its 50 cent public transport fares showed its laser focus on cost-of-living issues and lifted its stocks. Commentators are blaming the Liberal National Party’s inability to control the messaging on its stance on re-criminalising abortion.

The rest of us know that uncommitted voters re-consider their options as they approach a polling booth in the same way they choose between barbecue or tomato sauce when they buy a sausage sanger.

Less predictable were the poor showings by One Nation and The Greens.

There’s a school of thought that says One Nation’s influence in its home state has been diminishing since the Federal Liberals installed a Queenslander, Peter Dutton, as leader and turned up their tough guy rhetoric, post the Voice referendum.

The Greens, on the other hand, have become increasingly confrontational at the Federal level – which is the polar-opposite for a party that’s supposed to run its own show on consensus.

Being tough on youth crime was the big issue in the run up to the polling with the LNP winning 11 electorates in regional centres. The Greens were never going to convince anyone they knew how to carry a big stick, let alone use one.

Some of the closest seats are yet to be finalised, but it is clear the LNP has won a majority, ending a three-term Labor Government. David Crisafulli was sworn in as the new Premier of Queensland today.