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Will Palaszczuk have to break her promise not to deal with the cross bench?

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk may be forced to break her promise not to deal with a disparate cross bench to form government, with nine seats still undecided days after Queenslanders cast their vote.

Ms Palaszczuk remains steadfast in her confidence she will win the 47 seats needed to secure Labor's return to power, even as the vote count continues today.

So far Labor has won 44 of the 48 seats it is predicted to gain, while the LNP sits on 36, with four crossbench MPs.

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LNP leader Tim Nicholls yesterday said the election was all but over with a definitive result potentially days away.

Mr Nicholls called into question Ms Palaszczuk's promise not to make deals in order to hold onto her lead in parliament, and challenged her to let him form government if she can't.

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s Australian Party has won two seats and is poised to claim victory in the north Queensland electorate of Hinchinbrook.

Independent Margaret Strelow, a former ALP member, leads the race for the seat of Rockhampton while another independent, Sandra Bolton, claimed an upset win in Noosa.

Any crossbench support will also have to bring together an unlikely alliance between One Nation's Stephen Andrew, who has won the seat of Mirani, and Greens candidate Michael Berkman, who is firmly in the hunt for the Brisbane seat of Maiwar.

Regardless of the complications, Mr Nicholls believes he could find a way to form government.

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"I've always been very much of the view that we need to see where the votes come," he said.

"This is an election that we haven't seen in Queensland for the better part of 20 years. People are making all their predictions, I think there are going to be a few people with egg on their faces."

Mr Nicholls said the uncertain election result made talk of his own future as LNP leader premature and also accused Ms Palaszczuk of hubris after holding a press conference on Monday where she claimed it was business as usual for the Labor government.

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