ReachTEL: 55-45 to Coalition

The latest monthly result for ReachTEL comes at the higher end of the Coalition’s formidable recent polling form.

Malcolm Turnbull’s formidable run of polling continues with the latest automated phone poll by ReachTEL for the Seven Network, which has the Coalition lead out to 55-45 – up from 53-47 at the previous poll on October 22, and 50-50 at a poll conducted the night after the leadership change on September 15. On the primary vote, the Coalition is up from 46.% to 48.8%, Labor is down from 33.0% to 31.1%, and the Greens are down from 11.3% to 11.2%.

Malcolm Turnbull leads 71.3-28.7 on ReachTEL’s all-or-nothing preferred prime minister measure, up from 68.9-31.1. A question on whether respondents felt safer from terrorism under Malcolm Turnbull or Tony Abbott breaks 74-26 to Turbull. And there are also the usual five-point scale leadership satisfaction ratings, which have Turnbull up slightly and Shorten down slightly, which you can read in greater detail here. The poll was conducted last night, from a sample of 3144.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

1,121 comments on “ReachTEL: 55-45 to Coalition”

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  1. His Honour asks Hart the killer question (more of a comment actually) that if women had been given a more prominent role in the management of the Catholic Church at the top levels the child abuses would not have been allowed to go on for so long.

  2. TrueBlueAussie@1068

    “You called him gone 6 months ago but abbott was the one who got rolled!”


    No, you have me wrong.

    As a Lib voter I am a Shorten supporter, please keep him as leader all the way up to the election.

    You called him gone six months ago and it was abbott who got rolled.

    Nothing wrong in what I said.

  3. [cpyne threatens to gag Parliament if Labor continues ‘attacks’ over Peter Slipper allegations]

    I find that the height of irony — no, bare-faced arrogance, after the attacks on Slipper, Thomson and Gillard.

  4. BK spot on.

    I think Pell and Hart have met their match with the no nonsense approach from Counsel Assisting and the Commission

    Hart and Pell will be like naughty cats or dogs at the end of this week… slinking away with their tales between their legs.

    “God” can’t help them now…

  5. [In other words typical Pyne.]

    If Pyne isn’t doing something to turn any decent person’s stomach simply wait for about 20 seconds. He’ll get there soon enough.

  6. BK and Steven

    [I think Pell and Hart have met their match with the no nonsense approach from Counsel Assisting and the Commission.]

    Let’s hope so what an odious person Pell is.

  7. There was a story of a remote polling booth in NSW where the officials estimated what the vote for the various parties would be and packed up early.

    Labor objected when it found out what was happening.

    Next election, properly conducted, the Labor vote fell sharply.

  8. [ Reading the article it’s only a lazy $100M, so they can probably cream it off the top of the Foreign Aid Budget for a fast-sinking Pacific Atoll. 😉 ]

    oooooh….who’s claws are showing then!! 🙂

  9. [cpyne threatens to gag Parliament if Labor continues ‘attacks’ over Peter Slipper allegations]

    Yes. Way to go. Even the morons of the mainstream media could not ignore that!

  10. [BK

    His Honour asks Hart the killer question (more of a comment actually) that if women had been given a more prominent role in the management of the Catholic Church at the top levels the child abuses would not have been allowed to go on for so long.]

    His Honour is showing his ignorance, IMO.

    Nun run institutions in Ireland, for example, are legendary for their sheer viciousness towards children.

    Forcing children to eat their own vomit showed that the nuns had scope for local initiatives:

    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/derry-nuns-psychotic-former-inmate-northern-ireland-abuse-inquiry

  11. imacca @ 1114,

    ‘ oooooh….who’s claws are showing then!! :)’

    I’m a cat. That’s how I roll. I do purring on occasion too. 😉

  12. Boerwar @ 1116,

    Nun run institutions and schools in Australia gave the Irish a run for their money. In fact, many of them came from there to here. My mother went to a Catholic School run by The Little Sisters of Charity, a misnomer if ever there was one, and they used to rap her over the knuckles till they were red raw if she didn’t get her scales on the piano right.

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