One Nation steadies within striking range of lagging Queensland Labor

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The Sydney Morning Herald · collected 2026-10-13 · by Matt Dennien

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A recent Resolve Political Monitor shows that One Nation's support in Queensland has increased slightly to 21%, putting it within striking distance of Labor, whose support remains at 24%. Premier David Crisafulli’s Liberal National Party (LNP) still leads with 32% of the primary vote. The survey, conducted between September 1 and October 10 with a sample size of 868 registered voters, indicates that while minor parties are gaining ground, Crisafulli remains the preferred premier with 41% support compared to Steven Miles' 24%.
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One Nation’s support has steadied in Queensland, coming close to Labor, which is lagging behind. The latest Resolve Political Monitor shows that while the Crisafulli LNP remains the frontrunner with a primary vote of 32%, One Nation's share increased from 20% to 21%. This rise puts One Nation within striking distance of Labor, which has been struggling at around 24%, its peak earlier in the year. The survey also indicates that Premier David Crisafulli leads Opposition Leader Steven Miles in personal ratings. With state elections scheduled for late October 2028, this snapshot marks two years since the LNP's return to power after a long absence.

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Dennien, M. (2026, October 13). One Nation steadies within striking range of lagging Queensland Labor. The Sydney Morning Herald. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/queensland/one-nation-steadies-within-striking-range-of-lagging-queensland-labor-20261013-p614v1.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

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LNP Labor One Nation One Nation’s Queensland

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Crisafulli PERSON · 6× Queensland GPE · 5× Labor ORG · 3× Miles ORG · 3× One Nation’s ORG · 3× Hanson PERSON · 2× LNP ORG · 2× One Nation ORG · 2× David Crisafulli PERSON · 1× Resolve Political Monitor ORG · 1×

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One Nation’s support at a state level in Queensland has steadied to be within striking distance of a lagging Labor, as minor parties take a further bite from major counterparts at the election cycle’s halfway mark.
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🔮 The next state election will be held in late October 2028.
2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald
One Nation steadies within striking range of lagging Queensland Labor · assertive framing

Claims (21 extracted, 0 hedged)

One Nation’s support at a state level in Queensland has steadied to be within striking distance of a lagging Labor, as minor parties take a further bite from major counterparts at the election cycle’s halfway mark. asserted
parties → steady → mark
But the Crisafulli LNP remains the clear favourite, with primary vote support of 32 per cent, the latest two-month Resolve Political Monitor conducted for this masthead shows. asserted
Monitor → remain → masthead
Personal ratings also reveal Premier David Crisafulli again extending his lead over Opposition Leader Steven Miles, despite a second straight narrowing of his still significant lead as preferred premier. asserted
Crisafulli → reveal → premier
This month marks two years since Crisafulli’s party swept to power for the first time in more than a decade, with the milestone looming for both leaders as a turning point towards the 2028 election. asserted
milestone → mark → election
At its peak earlier in the year, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party briefly level-pegged with Labor at a state level of 24 per cent. asserted
party → peg → cent
In this latest snapshot, One Nation’s share rose from 20 per cent to 21 per cent, within the 3 per cent margin of error, amid a focus on federal matters and looming state elections in Victoria and NSW. asserted
share → rise → Victoria
Small lifts for the Greens (one percentage point, to 11 per cent) and independents (one percentage point, to 7 per cent) have driven non-major parties to 44 per cent of primary vote support. asserted
lifts → drive → support
Miles’ net likeability remained the same at -6, as Crisafulli’s lifted from +16 to +20. asserted
Crisafulli → remain → +20
Crisafulli’s preferred premier support remained at 41 per cent, with Miles’ lifting two points to 24 per cent. asserted
Miles → remain → cent
Resolve director Jim Reed said overall, the vote position had been relatively stable across the year, outside the slow gains of One Nation. asserted
position → say → Nation
“Crisafulli still achieves quite healthy personal ratings, so there’s no sign the electorate have tired of him during his first term,” Reed said. asserted
Reed → achieve → term
The results come from two waves of polling conducted with registered voters from September 1 to 5, and October 6 to 10, for a total sample size of 868. asserted
results → come → 868
Across that period, the government has continued to face pressure over its management of the state’s Child Safety system and was hit with Queensland’s first credit rating downgrade in almost two decades. asserted
government → continue → decades
While Miles faced publicly aired, but anonymous, criticisms of his leadership and concerns in the media about a clear path for a replacement this month, he is not yet facing an imminent threat. asserted
he → face → threat
Labor’s primary vote support sits lower than it did in 2012, when the party was reduced to just seven seats. asserted
party → sit → seats
While scrutiny of One Nation’s policies and party organisation has increased with its ascendance in polling nationwide this year, this is yet to translate into an explicit focus on Queensland state politics. asserted
this → increase → politics
State-level support for the party in Hanson’s home state had briefly passed the 22.6 per cent result achieved at her breakthrough 1998 Queensland election, which took the party from 0 to 11 seats. asserted
which → pass → seats
The party currently has no sitting MPs in Queensland, despite its state branch website still listing Stephen Andrew as the member for Mirani. asserted
website → have → Mirani
Andrew was dumped from the party by Hanson before the 2024 election. asserted
Andrew → dump → election
The next state election will be held in late October 2028. asserted
election → hold → October
While Crisafulli has repeatedly reiterated his pledge to return optional preferential voting, the change is yet to be enacted. asserted
change → reiterate → voting
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