Phillip Coorey
1 Dec 2025
If you are male, aged over 50 and weighed down by the cost of living, there is a one-in-four chance you would vote for One Nation if an election were held now.
That is according to a new poll conducted for The Australian Financial Review, which finds that while support for One Nation among all voters is 18 per cent, it jumps to 26 per cent for male members of Generation X, or those born from 1965-1980.
Among male members of the Baby Boomer generation, it is slightly lower at 22 per cent.
The findings are contained in a new Redbridge/Accent Research poll, which sampled the views of 4775 voters between November 7 and 26.
Over the same period, the federal opposition fractured over climate and energy policy, due in large part to pressure from One Nation, and, similarly, gave notice it would soon outline principles on a policy to pare back immigration.
Last week, former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce quit his party and he is expected to run for One Nation as an NSW senator at the next election, due by 2028.
The jumbo-sized poll – separate to the monthly The Australian Financial Review/Redbridge/Accent poll, which was conducted over six days and published two weeks ago – samples enough people to give statistically meaningful breakdowns of the results.
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