Going into the final week of the WA campaign, not much has changed from where it started a month ago. The relatively scant and yet surprisingly diverse nature of polling data available leaves poll-watchers free to choose their own adventure, from a comprehensive win for Mark McGowan's Labor opposition to a very close and messy race in which Colin Barnett's Liberals might even cling on in minority by the skin of their teeth. About the only thing the statewide polls agree on is this: following a shambolic and confused campaign, One Nation may have tanked.
The following table gives all the statewide polling known to me. The poll marked as "Essential" is known to me only from a Poll Bludger exclusive that describes it as Greens-commissioned Essential robopoll. That description places it at least two degrees of separation from anything we can place verified trust in but I mention it all the same. I've also given an average and a time-weighted (but not performance-weighted) aggregate, in each case excluding the Essential.
In this case though, I don't place that much confidence in aggregation methods. There is a major house-effect difference between the ReachTELs and the Galaxy/Newspoll stable, worth at least four points on each major party's primaries, and coming out at two or three on the 2PP only because ReachTEL use respondent preferences (which have been skewing massively to Labor). There's a pretty good chance here that someone's right and someone's wrong. We're not just seeing margin of error issues here - there would not be such large and consistent differences in the major party primaries by pollster if we were. (And no, voting intention doesn't bounce around this much in reality through a campaign either.)
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The Unusual World Of PUP's Mark Grewar
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(Note: Some additional items have been added through this article since it was first released.)
Running a large slate of candidates in a state election from scratch is never easy. When the Palmer United Party (PUP) decided to run a full slate at this year's state election, I wondered who they might find to fill all the spots, having fielded only seven candidates in the state at the federal election. When I saw PUP's Tasmanian Senator-elect Jacqui Lambie stating that she had 22 "really good" candidates ready to roll but had held back another seven I started to wonder what might be to come.
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