SA poll: 59 to 41 in Labor’s favour

Bryan · Sunday 27 May 2007 · 10:53 pm

Better late than never. Today’s Sunday Mail reported a poll of 601 South Australian voters. The headline prediction was a state-wide two-party preferred vote share of 59 per cent for Labor and 41 per cent for the Coalition.

The key issues for South Australians in the coming election were:

  • The water shortage (84 per cent)
  • Education and training opportunities (73 per cent)
  • Climate change (66 per cent)

The Coalition holds three South Australian seats with less than a one percent margin: Kingston, Wakefield and Makin. All would become safe Labor seats with this sort of swing. If this poll is a reliable predictor of the next election, Labor should also have comfortable wins in Christopher Pyne’s seat of Sturt and Andrew Southcott’s seat of Boothby.

Details here. Interestingly, Coalition and Labor voters were pretty similar on the importance of the water shortage in South Australia.

Hat tip to Mystery and benunderscore

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