A new poll reveals a significant shift in voter preferences among younger Australians, with support for the Greens declining while the Labor and Coalition parties see increased backing. The findings highlight the intense competition for the youth vote on key issues like housing and cost of living.
Younger voters have shifted towards the two major parties and cut their support for the Greens over the past three months, intensifying a political race to gain their trust on issues such as housing and the cost of living . Australians aged 18 to 34 have cut their primary vote for the Greens from 27 to 23 per cent during the final quarter of this year, driving their support below the level seen at the last election.
This shift has come with a boost in their core support for Labor, up from 31 to 33 per cent, and a similar increase for the Coalition, up from 25 to 27 per cent. But older voters – a bigger share of the electorate – have continued a dramatic swing to the Liberals and Nationals this year and now record twice as much support for the Coalition as for Labor. The exclusive findings, conducted for this masthead by Resolve Strategic, show that younger voters favor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as the nation’s leader by a margin of 43 to 23 per cent over Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. Among voters aged over 55, however, Dutton leads by 49 to 32 per cent when voters are asked to name their preferred prime minister. Those aged 35 to 54 favor Albanese over Dutton by just 36 to 33 per cent – much narrower than their strong support for the prime minister at the end of 2023. The quarterly analysis of the Resolve Political Monitor is based on responses from 4831 voters from October to December, confirming a broad shift from Labor to the Coalition since the May 2022 election. Resolve director Jim Reed said voters were starting to “peel away” from the Greens in the areas where they were used to gaining strong support. “We’ve noted a drop in Greens vote nationally this year, but most concerning for them will be that the loss is hardest in their traditional bases of younger and inner-city voters,” he sai
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