Morgan on preferred state leaders

Bryan · Monday 17 April 2006 · 5:51 am

Morgan has released three polls on party leadership in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

  • 51% of NSW voters prefer Morris Iemma to Peter Debnam (23%) as Premier. 54% approve of the way Mr Iemma is handling his job as Premier, 31% disapprove and 15% couldn’t say. Only slightly more voters approve (36%) than disapprove (35%) of the way Mr Debnam is handling his job.
  • 67% Victorians prefer Steve Bracks to Robert Doyle (18%) as Premier. A majority of Victorians (56%) approve of the way Mr Bracks is handling his job as Premier, 34% disapprove and 10% couldn’t say. Only 30% of voters approve of the way Mr Doyle is handling his job as Opposition Leader, while 51% disapprove and 19% couldn’t say.
  • 70% of Queenslanders prefer Peter Beattie to Lawrence Springborg (20%) as Premier. 62% of voters approve of the way Mr Beattie is handling his job as Premier, 32% disapprove while 6% couldn’t say. 42% approve of the way Mr Springborg is handling his job as Opposition Leader, 37% disapprove and 21% couldn’t say.

Personally, I would exercise some caution with these results. They are based on very small samples. For NSW the sample size was 409 electors. For Victoria it was 321 electors. And for Queensland it was 235 electors.

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