State poll threatens to reduce Labor to minor-party status
They supped with the green devil and must pay:
TASMANIAN Labor is on track to suffer the ignominy of not only losing office but also ceding official opposition status to the Greens.
An analysis of the latest opinion poll, published in Hobart’s The Mercury today, suggests the Liberals will win a clear majority of 14 seats in the 25-seat House of Assembly at the state election next week.
But there is worse news for Labor, with the electorate breakdown of the ReachTEL poll of 2680 voters showing it is on track to lose up to half of its 10 seats and will be reduced to five or six seats. The same figures suggest the Greens will win at least four, probably five and potentially six seats, while the Palmer United Party may take one.
If Labor suggests the Greens are just Labor’s purer selves, only less practical, it will be destroyed the minute it proves that it’s not practical, either
The statewide figures are also bad news for Labor, showing its support has fallen over the past three weeks to just 23.6 per cent, compared with the Liberal Party's virtually unchanged 47.4 per cent and the Greens' 18.2 per cent. The Palmer United Party has dropped to 6.7 per cent, but its surge to 9.6 per cent in Braddon means its support is increasing in the electorate where it is most likely to succeed.
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