Cost-of-living pressures, community safety, transport and infrastructure were the main concerns raised by residents during a Stafford byelection candidates’ forum on Wednesday night.

The byelection is the second out-of-cycle poll since the LNP took government in October 2024, and was triggered by the death of MP Jimmy Sullivan in early April.

Sullivan had been sitting as an independent after he was expelled from Labor last year amid highly publicised personal struggles .

Candidates for the Stafford byelection participated in a forum on Wednesday night. Facebook

Of the nine candidates running in the byelection , seven participated in the forum.

Alan Denaro (Family First Party), Damian Smart (independent), Daniel Selff (Libertarian Party), Jacqueline Verne (Legalise Cannabis Queensland), Jess Lane (Greens), Liam Parry (independent), and Luke Richmond (Labor) were all in attendance.

Liberal National Party candidate Fiona Hammond and Lucy O’Brien from the Animal Justice Party were unable to attend.

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