Annastacia Palaszczuk Labor Margie Nightingale Labor A by-election for the electoral district of Inala in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland was held on 16 March 2024 following the resignation of former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk from parliament, which was announced on 10 December 2023 and took effect on 31 December 2023.

Palaszczuk was subsequently appointed as Labor leader[3] and led the party back to government in the 2015 Queensland state election.

[4] William Bowe from the Poll Bludger and the "Feeding the Chooks" column in The Australian, suggested Jon Persley, Annastacia Palaszczuk's deputy chief of staff, as a potential successor candidate for the 2024 Inala state by-election.

[11] In January 2024, Persley told The Australian that he would not be contesting for preselection due to Labor's gender quota rules being a 'big factor'.

Margie Nightingale, a former teacher and current policy adviser to Treasurer Cameron Dick,[12] won the preselection instead and was elected as the new MP for Inala at the by-election.