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Labor lead by 0.6 points; at this stage, the poll leader went on to top the vote in one of the last three elections

Where the polls stood 19 months before each of the last three general elections, and what happened next. The biggest move from this point: Coalition in 2019, +5.9 points between the polls and the result.

Then and on polling day

The average of the polls around the same point in each cycle (each pollster counted once), the line to polling day, and the result. The dashed line is this point.

2025 16 October 2023
19 months before polling day · 7 polls

Coalition led by 0.9. Labor won the vote instead, by 2.7.

0 10 20 30 40 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
Coalition 34.7 31.8 −2.9
Labor 33.8 34.6 +0.8
Greens 12.7 12.2 −0.5
One Nation 5.9 6.4 +0.5
2022 2 November 2020
19 months before polling day · 4 polls

Coalition led by 4.8. Coalition won the vote by 3.1 on 21 May.

0 20 40 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
Coalition 39.8 35.7 −4.1
Labor 35.0 32.6 −2.4
Greens 9.5 12.3 +2.8
One Nation 3.2 5.0 +1.8
2019 30 October 2017
19 months before polling day · 4 polls

Labor led by 1.5. Coalition won the vote instead, by 8.1.

0 20 40 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
Coalition 35.5 41.4 +5.9
Labor 37.0 33.3 −3.7
Greens 9.5 10.4 +0.9
One Nation 8.5 3.1 −5.4

If the polls move as they did

Today's average, then each party moved by as much as it did between this point and polling day in each past cycle. Where a party did not stand, or polled under another name we cannot match, the cell is blank.

PartyToday As in 2025 As in 2022 As in 2019
Labor 26.6 27.4 24.2 22.9
One Nation 26.0 26.5 27.8 20.6
Coalition 22.9 20.0 18.8 28.8
Greens 13.2 12.7 16.0 14.1

One Nation and Coalition would overtake in two of the three. A party's move in one cycle belongs to that campaign; this shows the size of change that has happened from here, not a forecast. Our forecast →

How this is worked out

For each past election we take every national voting-intention poll published in the fortnight either side of the same point (three weeks, or five where polls were sparse), average each pollster's polls, then average the pollsters. Australia's figures are first preferences; the Coalition counts the Liberal, National, LNP and Country Liberal parties together.

Polls: Opinion polling for the 2019 Australian federal election, Opinion polling for the 2022 Australian federal election, Opinion polling for the 2025 Australian federal election, Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Results: the national electoral authorities. Today: our poll average, updated with every poll.

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