ACNielsen: 53 to 47 in Labor’s favour
The latest ACNielsen poll of 1411 voters (detailed here) predicted that Labor would have got 53 per cent of the national two-party preferred vote, were an election held between last Thursday and Saturday.
While the headline prediction looks bad for the government, the government would draw some comfort from the primary vote predictions: 41 per cent for Labor (unchanged on the previous ACNielsen poll) and 42 per cent for the Coalition (down one point). If preferences are distributed along the lines they were last election, the two-party preferred prediction would have been 48.5 to 51.5 in Labor’s favour.
Beazley has taken a bit of a hit in the attitudinal surveys. His approval rating is down four points, and his disapproval rating is up two. But these results are still better than his nadir in April this year.
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