Today’s West Australian carries a Westpoll survey of 400 voters which shows Colin Barnett’s newly elected Liberal government with a 57-43 lead over the Labor opposition. Barnett is rated preferred premier by 57 per cent of respondents against 16 per cent for the new Labor leader, former Treasurer Eric Ripper. The West also reports that [...]
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Westpoll: 53-47 to Labor in WA
Saturday, July 12, 2008 – 12:25 am
The latest 400-sample Westpoll survey (“based on interviews with more than 400 people”, according to The West, though I doubt you’d need both hands to count by how much) shows Labor with a 53-47 lead on state voting intention, at the low end of the 53-47 to 56-44 range which covers every published poll this [...]
Newspoll: 54-46 to Labor in WA
Friday, June 27, 2008 – 2:12 am
State Newspoll bonanza, episode four. The latest quarterly survey of Western Australian state voting intention has Labor’s two-party lead increasing from 53-47 to 54-46; on the primary vote, Labor is down one point to 41 per cent, while the Coalition is down three to 35 per cent. One way of looking at this result [...]
Westpoll: 54-46 to Labor in WA
Monday, May 19, 2008 – 2:00 am
The first poll of Western Australian state voting intention since the Troy Buswell chair-sniffing revelation and resulting spill motion has not produced the Liberal meltdown that might have been expected. In fact, the Westpoll survey shows the Liberals narrowing the gap since March: Labor is down 5 per cent on the primary vote to 39 [...]
Built to spill
Friday, May 2, 2008 – 5:25 am
The West Australian today carries a “snap” Westpoll survey of 413 voters showing 50 per cent think the beleagured Troy Buswell should resign as state Opposition Leader following the revelation of his chair-sniffing indiscretion. The poll also has Buswell in third place as preferred Liberal leader with 12 per cent support, behind former leaders Matt [...]
Newspoll: 53-47 to Labor in WA
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 – 12:39 pm
Newspoll’s latest quarterly survey of Western Australian state voting intention provides more bad news for new Liberal leader Troy Buswell, with Labor opening up a 53-47 two-party lead after trailing 49-51 in the final poll on previous Liberal leader Paul Omodei’s watch. Labor’s primary vote is up 2 per cent to 42 per cent with [...]
Westpoll: 56-44 to Labor in WA
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 – 1:50 am
I have belatedly noticed that Saturday’s West Australian featured a Westpoll survey of state voting intention. The often volatile series (sample sizes are a little over 400) has Labor retaining most of its surprise 58-42 lead from the January poll, conducted in the immediate aftermath of Troy Buswell’s Liberal leadership coup. Looking back to mid-2006, [...]
Murdoch by-election live
Saturday, February 23, 2008 – 9:37 pm
7.58pm. Notional preference count now up to half, producing no change worth mentioning.
7.54pm. Notional distribution of preferences, based on a bit less than a quarter of the vote, gives a Liberal-versus-Greens two-party preferred of 69.5-30.5.
7.51pm. I speak too soon: Murdoch University now in. Only 478 votes, so not sure what took them so long. This [...]
Murdoch by-election preview
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 – 11:48 pm
This post will be progressively updated as events unfold in the lead-up to Western Australia’s Murdoch by-election, to be held to replace recently deceased Liberal member Trevor Sprigg. The date for the by-election was set last week for February 23, which has left the Liberals complaining they have just days to finalise a candidate ahead [...]
Siege of Troy
Thursday, January 17, 2008 – 5:15 pm
The hapless Western Australian Liberals have a new leader after incumbent Paul Omodei stepped aside at today’s party room meeting. His successor is Vasse MP Troy Buswell (right), who just five days ago told the media he needed “more experience in the House and more time to develop before I could be considered for that [...]
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