One Nation’s state-level support in Queensland has peaked for now, with the Crisafulli LNP government regaining primary vote ground as Pauline Hanson’s party dips back below the Labor opposition.
One Nation’s four percentage point fall to 20 per cent comes alongside a mirrored boost for the LNP to 34 per cent, according to the latest two-month Resolve Political Monitor poll conducted for this masthead.
Despite little change for the quarter of voters who would support Labor, the large personal and preferred premier gap between David Crisafulli and Opposition Leader Steven Miles has narrowed slightly.
While Miles’ net likeability score has climbed back to minus 6, Crisafulli’s has remained stable at 16. Meanwhile, the portion of voters preferring the incumbent as premier dropped 3 percentage points to 41 per cent.
But Crisafulli still comfortably leads Miles on that metric, with the Labor leader preferred by just 22 per cent of voters (up two percentage points), with 37 per cent undecided (up one percentage point).
The results come from two waves of surveys conducted with registered voters across July 6 to 11, and August 9 to 16, for a total sample size of 868, and with a 3 per cent margin of error.
July’s polling came within weeks of the second Crisafulli government budget and Labor’s reply, as pressure on several key ministers grew and scrutiny around Hanson’s One Nation continued.
The August wave followed a fortnight of state parliamentary estimates hearings, and the return of sidelined Sports Minister Tim Mander – cleared of voting enrolment issues.
Resolve director Jim Reed said the LNP’s primary vote was “relatively healthy by contemporary standards”, which have seen governments in NSW, Victoria and federally fall below 30 per cent amid One Nation’s rise.
“And having a right-of-centre incumbent [government in Queensland] does seem to be keeping One Nation at bay,” Reed said.
State-level support for One Nation in Hanson’s home state had briefly passed the 22.6 per cent result achieved at her breakthrough 1998 Queensland election, which took the party from 0 to 11 seats.
One Nation has no sitting state MPs, despite its sparingly updated state branch website still listing Stephen Andrew as the member for Mirani. Andrew was dumped from the party by Hanson before the 2024 election.
Labor’s primary vote sits lower than it did in 2012, when it was reduced to just seven seats. While facing some internal frustrations about his approach in opposition to date, Miles is not yet facing any leadership threat.
The next state election is not due until late October 2028. While Crisafulli pledged during the last campaign to return optional preferential voting, the change is yet to be enacted.
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