Essential Research - ALP leads 55%-45%

The latest Essential Report poll has been released. Along with the usual voting intention question there are also approval ratings for Tanner and Barnaby and a question asking who would make a better PM out of Rudd and Gillard plus a few more.

Primaries
ALP - 44%
Coalition - 38%
Greens - 10%
Others - 6%
Family First - 2%


2PP
ALP - 55%
Coalition - 45%

Lindsay Tanner Approval Rating
Approve - 31%
Disapprove - 24%
Net Satisfaction - +7%
Don't Know - 45%
Demographics - ALP voters - 56% approve. Coaliton voters - 49% disapprove. Greens voters - 43% approve. Males 46% approve. Females - 49% "Don't know"

Barnaby Joyce Approval Rating
Approve - 25%
Disapprove - 36%
Net satisfaction  - -11%
Don't Know - 39%
Demographics - ALP voters - 53% dissaprove. Coalition voters - 47% approve. Greens voters - 56% disapprove. A quite high 23% of Coalition voters disapprove. Males - 43% disapprove. Females 47% don't know.

Better PM

Essential Research. Labor leads 60-40.

The latest Essential Reserach survey is great news for the Rudd Labor government. The 2PP vote has Labor leading 60%-40% up from 58-42 in the last survey. The promary votes are Labor 51%, Coaltion 33%, Greens 8%, Independent/Others 6% and Family First 2%.

Repsondents were split 39%-39% on whether the Libs/Nats should stay as a Coaliton with 21% undecided.

In other results 62% of respondents approve of the the $20 billion gas deal agreed to with China and 59% of people thought Ricky Ponting should stay on as Captain of the Australian Cricket Team.

These results and more here