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Latest poll has Nationals with strong lead in Parkes

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Farren Hotham

26 April 2025, 3:40 PM

Latest poll has Nationals with strong lead in ParkesJamie Chaffey at Pre-poll in Dubbo. IMAGE: facebook

It won’t come as an real surprise but Nationals candidate Jamie Chaffey is holding an unassailable lead heading into Saturdays Federal Election according to the latest You Gov Poll.


Projections give him a 64.3% of the vote in a two horse race against Labor’s Nathan Fell, both candidates have spent time at Pre-Polling Centres at Dubbo and Broken Hill.



Nationals Candidate Chaffey is expected to suffer a small swing of 3.5 to his Labor opponent the poll predicts but he says pre-poll voting has been large.


‘’Despite some rain at the pre-poll centre people have given me a warm reception here and Broken Hill.’’ He said.


Mr Chaffey has been traversing the electorate since he was pre-selected by Nationals members in August last year.


He has campaigned on better Healthcare, Aged Care and Child Care for the biggest seat in NSW, covering 50% of the land area.


Nathan Fell in Broken Hill. IMAGE: facebook


Nathan Fell says supporting mining communities in the electorate is important.


Candidates from the Shooters and Fishers (Stephen Pope ) Mark Carter, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Trish Frail, Greens, Petrus Van Der Steen , Trump of Patriots, Bob Wilson, Indigenous -Aboriginal Indigenous Party , Maurice Davey Family First, Sally Edwards make up the list.


In 2022 Sitting MP Mark Coulton won with 49.3% primary votes with ALP’s Jack Ayoub obtaining 20.2.


The seat takes up a mammoth 406,765 square kilometres 3 times the size of neighbouring of the second largest electorate Farrar.