Annastacia Palaszczuk will lead Queensland for a third term

When Annastacia Palaszczuk pulled off a surprise election victory in 2015, some called her the “accidental Premier”.

But now Queenslanders have chosen her as their leader for a third term.

Here’s how she did it:

After an electoral bloodbath with Campbell Newman’s landslide LNP victory in 2012, all that was left of Labor was a meagre seven Queensland MPs.

The running joke was that the entire Labor caucus could fit into a mini-van.

As the most experienced politician in that mini-van, Ms Palaszczuk became their leader.

She was elected unopposed at a time when many pundits expected Labor to languish in the…