One Nation neck-and-neck with Coalition on primary vote, new polling shows
DemosAU’s head of research, George Hasanakos, says it’s the first time a nationwide poll has shown a minor party on equal footing with a traditional party of government.
One Nation’s primary vote is now level with the Coalition’s, new polling suggests, as the right-wing minor party’s post-election surge continues in the wake of the Bondi terror attack.
Liberal leader Sussan Ley is working to arrest her party’s ongoing decline after months of internal division over climate change and immigration, following May’s devastating election defeat.
After its moderate faction was decimated in successive elections, polls have consistently shown the Coalition bleeding votes to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. The party has capitalised on anxiety over immigration and the economy and been emboldened by its December recruitment of former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce.
New polling from DemosAU — conducted exclusively for Capital Brief — indicates that trend is continuing, with One Nation now tied with the Coalition on the primary vote.
