Tasmania’s Labor Party is closing the gap on the Liberals, according to the latest EMRS state voting intentions poll.
The poll shows Labor gaining 4 percentage points to 31%, while the Liberal Party has slipped one point to 35%.
This is the smallest gap between the two major parties since Jeremy Rockliff became Premier in April 2022.
The Greens remain steady at 14%, while support for the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) has decreased by 2 points since August 2023 to 6%.
Labor Leader Dean Winter has also seen a 7-percentage point increase as preferred Premier to 37%, although he still trails Rockliff, who sits at 43%.
For the first time, the poll also measured the favourability both leaders, with Rockliff and Winter recording similar ratings of +15 and +14 respectively.
Despite being the Labor leader for six months, 18% of respondents said they had not heard of Winter, while a further 8% stated that they didn’t know enough about him to give an accurate favourability measure.
The poll, conducted from November 5 to 14, surveyed 1,000 Tasmanian registered voters.
EMRS says it has a maximum margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
