Peter Dutton claims victory in Dickson

Peter Dutton has won the fight of his political life and claimed victory in his marginal northern Brisbane seat of Dickson.

The home affairs minister's win comes despite an "unprecedented personal attack" by GetUp! and Labor.

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"I want to quote a former prime minister. His name was Paul Keating and the quote was, 'This is the sweetest victory of all'," he joked as he addressed about 300 jubilant supporters.

"We've now been able to hold (Dickson) for seven terms."

Mr Dutton said there was an "amazing mood" across Australia in support of Scott Morrison.

"He's distilled our message down to one the Australian people have been able to understand," he said.

"And people have overwhelmingly accepted that."

Mr Dutton said Dickson voters had their "baseball bats out for Bill Shorten".

"Queenslanders can call out a phoney and they have," he said.

The divisive politician entered the election with a margin of just 1.7 per cent.

His campaign got off to a rocky start when he claimed Labor candidate Ali France was using her disability as an excuse not to move into the electorate.

Earlier on Saturday, Mr Dutton said he sensed a lot of anger against Labor because of the tax changes they were proposing.

Grassroots campaigning by the activist group GetUp had also angered voters in the mortgage-belt seat.