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Whopping lead for Labor ahead of WA election, but federal Newspoll deadlocked at 50-50

  • Written by Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Whopping lead for Labor ahead of WA election, but federal Newspoll deadlocked at 50-50Richard Wainwright/AAP

With less than three weeks left until the March 13 Western Australian election, the latest Newspoll gives Labor a 68-32 lead, two-party-preferred. If replicated on election day, this would be a 12.5% swing to Labor from the 2017 election two party result.

Analyst Kevin Bonham describes the Newspoll result as “scarcely...

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