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Early election

18 Dec 2018

Q. Do you think the Coalition Government should run its full term until around May 2019 when the next Federal election is due or do you think they should call an early election?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote LNP Vote Greens Vote other
Should run full term 52% 40% 78% 30% 57%
Should call an early election 27% 43% 12% 45% 27%
Don’t know 21% 17% 11% 26% 15%

About half think the Government should run its full term while 27% think they should call an early election. 76% of LNP voters think they should serve the full term while Labor voters are split with 43% favouring an early election and 40% wanting the Government to run its full term.

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