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Opinion of Julia Gillard

9 Aug 2010

Q. Since the election was called has your opinion of Julia Gillard and the Labor Party gone up or down?

  Total Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens
Total gone up 19% 38% 8% 18%
Total gone down 42% 16% 68% 38%
Gone up a lot 6% 15% 1% 2%
Gone up a little 13% 23% 7% 16%
Stayed the same 32% 43% 22% 41%
Gone down a little 20% 15% 25% 24%
Gone down a lot 22% 1% 43% 14%
Don’t know 7% 2% 1% 3%

 19% say their opinion of Julia Gillard and the Labor Party has gone up during the election campaign and 42% say it has gone down.

 Among Labor voters 38% say their opinion has gone up and 18% say it has gone down.

 By gender – men 22% up/44% down and women 16% up/40% down.

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