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Preferred Prime Minister

8 May 2018

Q. Who do you think would make the better Prime Minister out of Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   Apr 2018 Mar 2018 Dec 2017
Malcolm Turnbull 40% 18% 78% 19% 37%   41% 41% 42%
Bill Shorten 26% 54% 7% 36% 18%   26% 26% 28%
Don’t know 34%   28% 15% 44% 45%   33% 33% 31%

The results were split by party, with 78% of Liberal/National voters saying that Malcolm Turnbull would be a better Prime Minister, and 54% of Labor voters saying Bill Shorten would.
40% thought that Malcolm Turnbull would make the better Prime Minister (down 1% from last month), and 26% thought Bill Shorten would be better (no change). 34% did not know who would make a better Prime Minister.

Greens voters preferred Bill Shorten (36%) to Malcolm Turnbull (19%).

44% of men prefer Malcolm Turnbull and 30% prefer Bill Shorten.

36% of women prefer Malcolm Turnbull and 23% prefer Bill Shorten.

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