Sydney University polling expert Professor Simon Jackman says the performance of pollsters has been “pretty good” in 2022, after getting the outcome of the 2019 federal election wrong.
All major national published polls correctly predicted a Labor victory, and their two-party preferred projections were close to the actual voting patterns.
Labor has received around 52% of votes on a two-party preferred basis with around 71% of the votes counted, compared with the Coalition’s 48%:
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