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

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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