Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls has dodged suggestions the LNP’s decision to preference One Nation above Labor could cost the party seats in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

Late on Friday, the LNP announced it would list the Greens last on its how-to-vote cards and place One Nation higher than Labor in about 50 seats.

Queensland Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls helps out with a sausage sizzle during a visit to Redland Bay market on Sunday. Credit:AAP/Regi Varghese

But Mr Nicholls would not be drawn on whether the preference plan could “backfire” in city seats in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

He instead blamed Labor for introducing compulsory preferential voting and then advised people to “vote one” for the LNP – rhetoric which in the past could be literally followed, but at the 2017 election, voters will have to number every box.