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Best leader of the Liberal Party

Aug 27, 2018

Q. Which of the following do you think would make the best leader of the Liberal Party?

	Total	Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens	Vote other	Jun 2014	Aug 2015	Mar 2016	Aug 2017	Dec 2017	Apr 2018	Jul 2018
Julie Bishop	23%	24%	25%	28%	20%	4%	17%	12%	20%	19%	17%	16%
Malcolm Turnbull	15%	20%	18%	15%	5%	31%	24%	39%	25%	21%	24%	28%
Scott Morrison	10%	5%	22%	1%	7%	1%	3%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%
Tony Abbott	9%	6%	12%	2%	17%	18%	18%	9%	10%	10%	11%	10%
Peter Dutton	4%	3%	3%	4%	8%				3%	4%	3%	5%
Christopher Pyne	1%	1%	1%	3%	1%	<1%	1%	1%	3%	2%	2%	2%
Someone else	13%	17%	4%	21%	22%	19%	13%	15%	13%	15%	14%	14%
Don’t know	25%	22%	14%	26%	20%	21%	22%	21%	25%	27%	27%	24%

23% (up 7% since July) think Julie Bishop would make the best leader of the Liberal Party, 15% prefer Malcolm Turnbull (down 13%), 10% Scott Morrison (up 8%) and 9% prefer Tony Abbott (down 1%). 13% (down 1%) prefer someone else.

Among Liberal/National voters, 25% prefer Julie Bishop (up 11%), 22% Scott Morrison (up 20%), 18% Malcolm Turnbull (down 33%) and 12% Tony Abbott (up 1%).

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