YouGov poll results: Labor would lose election if held today

Fourteen months before the Queensland election, an exclusive Courier-Mail/YouGov poll has a devastating prediction for Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor Government. FULL POLL RESULTS

ANNASTACIA Palaszczuk’s State Labor Government is on the verge of being toppled at the next Queensland election in 14 months.

A Courier-Mail/YouGov poll has reveal Labor has fallen behind the LNP on a two-party-preferred basis for the first time since May 2016.

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The Deb Frecklington-led Opposition has now edged in front 51 per cent to Labor’s 49 per cent in a massive coup for the third-term Nanango MP who had previously faced murmurings about her leadership.

Labor led the last Courier Mail/YouGov poll in February 52 per cent to 48 per cent.

The results come after Labor’s horror showing in Queensland at the Federal election which prompted Ms Palaszczuk to declare she was “fed up” with her own Government’s delays on Adani’s contentious Carmichael coal mine.

The 2.2 per cent swing against the Palaszczuk Government since the last election would cost Labor at least six seats and its grip on power in State Parliament.

Support for Labor hits new low

SUPPORT for Labor has sunk to its lowest level since February 2017, in the wake of the State Labor Government’s backflip over Adani and the Jackie Trad integrity scandal.

Just 32 per cent of Queenslanders now say they would vote for Labor at the next election in October 2020, down from 35.4 per cent at the last election in late 2017.

The LNP vote statewide has crept ahead to 37 per cent, according to the Courier-Mail/YouGov poll of 1000 Queenslanders.

Meanwhile, the Greens have leapt to 13 per cent, the party’s highest result in years, while Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has reclaimed ground gradually lost over the last 18 months and is on 13 per cent.

Frecklington fails to make impact

VOTERS remain unsure how they feel about state Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington, exclusive new polling has revealed.

The latest Courier-Mail/YouGov polling shows the same percentage of voters are satisfied with Ms Frecklington as are unsatisfied, locked at 30 per cent each way.

Forty per cent of those polled remain unsure.

But the LNP leader is still doing better than her predecessor Tim Nicholls did in the lead-up to the 2017 state election when just 28 per cent of voters said they were happy with his performance.

State can’t get no satisfaction

ONLY about one in three voters is satisfied with Annastacia Palaszczuk’s performance, in her worst result since winning the keys to the Executive Building in 2015.

Just 34 per cent of Queenslanders are satisfied with Ms Palaszczuk’s performance, according to an exclusive The Courier-Mail/YouGov poll, a drop of 12 points since February.

The percentage of voters dissatisfied with her performance has jumped to 45 per cent, with one in five voters unsure.

The last time Ms Palaszczuk’s satisfaction rating dipped below 40 per cent was in August 2017, when her Government was dealing with an integrity crisis engulfing minister Mark Bailey’s private email use.

The Premier, who turned 50 last month, told last weekend’s Labor Party conference that her party was the “underdog” in the race to power.

Premier’s fall from grace

PREMIER Annastacia Palaszczuk has suffered a massive fall from grace, with her popularity plummeting to its lowest level since she was elected in 2015.

An exclusive Courier-Mail/YouGov poll has revealed Ms Palaszczuk’s standing as Queensland’s preferred premier has dropped 13 per cent in just six months.

Just 34 per cent of Queenslanders now think the long-serving Labor leader is best placed to run the state, down from 47 per cent in February.

However, support for LNP Leader Deb Frecklington only edged forward marginally by two per cent to 29 per cent with the number of Queenslander uncommitted about either leader surging to 37 per cent.

Ms Palaszczuk became Leader of the Opposition in 2102 after Labor was defeated by the Campbell Newman-led LNP.

But she became Premier in 2015 after Labor regained power and won a second term in 2017.

Originally published as YouGov poll results: Labor would lose election if held today