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Voting for a new conservative party
Q. If a new conservative party was formed and included people like Tony Abbott, how likely would you be to vote for them?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Dec 2015 | |||
Total likely | 23% | 13% | 41% | 11% | 25% | 20% | ||
Total unlikely | 58% | 74% | 41% | 80% | 63% | 65% | ||
Very likely | 7% | 4% | 11% | 2% | 13% | 9% | ||
Somewhat likely | 16% | 9% | 30% | 9% | 11% | 11% | ||
Not very likely | 16% | 16% | 20% | 12% | 17% | 16% | ||
Not at all likely | 42% | 58% | 21% | 68% | 46% | 49% | ||
Don’t know | 19% | 14% | 19% | 9% | 13% | 15% |
23% say they would be very or somewhat likely to vote for a new conservative party and 58% would be not very or not at all likely.
41% of Liberal/National voters and 32% of those aged 65+ say they would be likely to vote for a new conservative party.
Compared to 12 months ago, likelihood of voting for a new conservative party has increased a little.

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