2027 New South Wales state election

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2027 New South Wales state election
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  2023 13 March 2027 [1] 2031 

All 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly
and 21 (of the 42) seats in the Legislative Council
47 Assembly seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
 
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150225 MDCC Election Forum Mark Speakman (cropped) b.jpg
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Leader Chris Minns Mark Speakman No leader
Party Labor Liberal/National coalition Greens
Leader since 4 June 2021 21 April 2023 N/A
Leader's seat Kogarah Cronulla N/A
Last election45 seats, 36.97%36 seats, 35.37%3 seats, 9.70%
Current seats46353
Seats neededIncrease2.svg 1Increase2.svg 12Increase2.svg 44

Incumbent Premier

Chris Minns
Labor



The 2027 New South Wales state election will be held on 13 March 2027 to elect the 59th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council. The election will be conducted by the NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC).

Contents

The incumbent Labor minority government, led by Premier Chris Minns, will seek to win a second four-year term in office. They will be challenged by the Liberal/National coalition, led by opposition leader Mark Speakman. The Greens, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party, other minor parties and several independents will also contest the election.

New South Wales has compulsory voting, with optional preferential, instant runoff voting in single-member seats for the lower house, and single transferable voting with optional preferential above-the-line voting in the proportionally represented upper house.

Background

At the previous state election held in 2023, the Australian Labor Party (ALP), led by Chris Minns, won the election after spending 12 years in opposition. The election saw Labor win 45 seats as opposed to the Coalition's 36 seats on election day, allowing Labor to form a minority government. The Greens retained their three seats, while the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers lost all three of their seats as a result of their MPs resigning from the party to become independents in the 2019–2023 parliament, as well as two independents who gained seats. [2]

In the Legislative Council (the upper house), 21 of the 42 seats were up for election. Both the Coalition and Labor won 15 seats each, however after the election of Ben Franklin as President of the Legislative Council, the Coalition's effective total vote on the floor on the council was reduced to 14. [3] The Greens won four seats in the Legislative Council. [4] One Nation won three seats, which is its largest representation in New South Wales and currently its largest in any Australian state or territory parliament. [4] Meanwhile, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party retained its two seats, [4] the Animal Justice Party lost one of its two seats [4] and two parties (the Legalise Cannabis Party and the Libertarian Party, which was registered as the Liberal Democrats in 2023) won their first ever seats in the New South Wales Parliament. [4]

During the 2023–2027 term of parliament, the government announced plans to rezone and activate Woollahra station, which is part of the T4 eastern suburbs line but was never completed due to local opposition in an effort to solve housing supply issues [5] and announced major housing policies (such as transit-oriented development, the creation of a Housing Delivery Authority to expedite approvals and banned no-fault evictions for renters as well as capping rent increases to once per year), [6] [7] [8] and increased teachers' wages to attract more people to the profession. [9] They have also acted upon a pledge at the previous election to abolish the land tax introduced by former premier Dominic Perrottet. [10] The government have also set in train processes to create new national parks based upon previous election pledges, those being in Georges River for Koalas and one in the North Coast to create a "Great Koala National Park". [11] [12]

The Coalition opposition have proposed building new metro lines. [13]

Since the 2023 state election, there have been six by-elections: in Northern Tablelands, [14] Pittwater, [15] Epping, [15] Hornsby, [16] Port Macquarie [17] and Kiama. [18] As a result of these by-elections, Labor's share of seats increased by one to 46, one short of a majority, the Liberal seat count was reduced by one to 35, and independent representation increased by one to nine seats.

Date

The parliament has fixed four-year terms with the election held on the fourth Saturday in March, [19] though the Governor may dissolve the house sooner on the advice of the Premier.

Additionally, section 24B, paragraph four of the Constitution Act 1902 states that "The Legislative Assembly may be dissolved within 2 months before the Assembly is due to expire if the general election would otherwise be required to be held during the same period as a Commonwealth election, during a holiday period or at any other inconvenient time." [20] Since 27 March 2027 is Holy Saturday, the government has announced that an election will be held on 13 March. [1] Two months before this date is 27 January 2027; however, since all Australian elections must by law take place on a Saturday, the earliest possible date for the 2027 New South Wales state election (other than by early dissolution) is Saturday 30 January 2027.

Pre-election pendulum

Registered parties

Fifteen parties are registered with the NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC). [21] Bold text indicates parliamentary parties.

Opinion polling

Primary vote opinion polling for the New South Wales 2027 election with a local regression (LOESS) trendline for each party. [Graph to be reviewed] NSW Opinion Polling for 2027 Election.png
Primary vote opinion polling for the New South Wales 2027 election with a local regression (LOESS) trendline for each party. [Graph to be reviewed]
Two-party-preferred opinion polling for the New South Wales 2027 election with a local regression (LOESS) trendline for each party. NSW 2PP Opinion Polling for 2027 Election.png
Two-party-preferred opinion polling for the New South Wales 2027 election with a local regression (LOESS) trendline for each party.

Voting intention

Legislative Assembly

DateFirmSample
size
Margin
of error
Primary vote TPP vote
ALP L/NP GRN IND OTH ALP L/NP
17–22 Oct 2025DemosAU [22] [23] 1,016±4.0%37%30%13%20%59%41%
9–13 Sep 2025Resolve [24] [25] [h] 38%28%10%11%12%59%41%
13–18 Jul 2025Resolve [26] [27] [h] 1,05438%32%13%8%10%57%43%
Mar–14 Apr 2025Resolve [28] [29] [i] 1,12333%36%11%14%6%51%49%
24–26 Mar 2025DemosAU [30] [31] 1,013±4.0%33%34%14%19%54%46%
18–23 Feb 2025Resolve [32] [33] [h] 29%38%14%11%8%49%51%
8 Dec 2024Resolve [32] 33%37%11%13%7%
6–20 Nov 2024Redbridge [34] [35] 1,088±3.4%37%41%9%13%50.5%49.5%
Sep–Oct 2024Resolve [36] [37] [h] 1,11132%37%11%14%6%50%50%
6–29 Aug 2024Wolf & Smith [38] [39] ±2.2%32%38%12%14%4%50%50%
11 Aug 2024Resolve [40] [41] [i] 1,00030%38%12%14%6%49%51%
16 Jun 2024Resolve [42] [43] [i] 1,00032%35%11%15%7%52%48%
Feb–May 2024Redbridge [44] 1,37635%40%11%14%50.5%49.5%
21 Mar–21 Apr 2024Resolve [45] [j] 1,00033%36%12%14%5%52%48%
25 Feb 2024Resolve [46] [47] [i] 1,03534%38%12%12%5%51.5%48.5%
11 Nov 2023Resolve [48] [49] [i] 1,10036%32%13%12%7%57%43%
10 Sep 2023Resolve [50] [51] [i] 1,01938%36%9%13%4%54%46%
16 Jul 2023Resolve [52] [53] [i] 1,01241%32%10%11%5%58%42%
14 May 2023Resolve [54] [55] [i] 1,10244%31%9%10%5%60%40%
25 Mar 2023 2023 election 37.0%35.4%9.7%8.8%9.2%54.3%45.7%

Legislative Council

DateFirmSample
size
Margin
of error
Primary vote
ALP L/NP GRN ONP LCA LBT SFF AJP FFP OTH
17–22 Oct 2025DemosAU [22] [23] 1,016±4.0%30%21%13%15%3%2%1%3%5%7% [k]
25 Mar 2023 2023 election 36.6%29.8%9.1%5.9%3.7%3.5%3.1%2.2%1.3%4.8%

Preferred premier

DateFirmBetter Premier
Minns Speakman Don't knowNet
17–22 Oct 2025DemosAU [22] [23] 44%25%31%+19%
9–13 Sep 2025Resolve [24] 37%16%47%+21%
13–18 Jul 2025Resolve [26] 35%16%49%+19%
Mar–22 Apr 2025Resolve [28] 40%15%45%+25%
24–26 Mar 2025DemosAU [30] 42%24%34%+18%
23 Feb 2025Resolve [32] 35%14%51%+21%
6 Oct 2024Resolve [36] 37%14%49%+23%
11 Aug 2024Resolve [40] 38%13%49%+25%
16 Jun 2024Resolve [42] 38%13%49%+25%
21 Apr 2024Resolve [45] 37%16%47%+21%
25 Feb 2024Resolve [46] 35%16%51%+19%
5 Nov 2023Resolve [48] 35%13%52%+22%
10 Sep 2023Resolve [50] 41%14%45%+27%
16 Jul 2023Resolve [52] 39%12%49%+27%
14 May 2023Resolve [54] 42%12%46%+30%

Leader satisfaction

DateFirmMinnsSpeakman
SatisfiedDissatisfiedDon't knowNetSatisfiedDissatisfiedDon't knowNet
Feb–May 2024Redbridge [44] 40%20%40%+20%19%21%60%-2%

See also

Notes

  1. Jordan Lane won the seat by just 54 votes in the two-party-preferred contest against Labor candidate Lyndal Howison. Labor saw an 8.9% swing towards them on two-party-preferences, which was the exact margin that the Liberals won Ryde with in 2019 with Victor Dominello.
  2. This number reflects the result at the 2023 New South Wales state election rather than the 2024 Pittwater state by-election, which Labor did not contest, for consistency.
  3. This number reflects the result at the 2023 New South Wales state election rather than the 2024 Epping state by-election, which Labor did not contest, for consistency.
  4. This number reflects the result at the 2023 New South Wales state election rather than the 2024 Hornsby state by-election, for consistency.
  5. The margin shown is the Liberal vs Labor margin at the 2023 election. At this election, two Coalition candidates contested the seat of Port Macquarie, both of which made the two-party-preferred contest. The Liberal vs National margin is 10.8%. Both parties also contested the 2025 Port Macquarie state by-election and Labor did not. It is very rare for the Coalition to run two candidates in New South Wales and it is thus unlikely that this phenomenon will reoccur in 2027.
  6. This number reflects the result at the 2023 New South Wales state election rather than the 2024 Northern Tablelands state by-election, which Labor did not contest, for consistency.
  7. This number reflects the result at the 2023 New South Wales state election rather than the 2025 Kiama state by-election for consistency.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Two-party preferred result estimated by Kevin Bonham.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Two-party-preferred result estimated by William Bowe of The Poll Bludger.
  10. Includes two-party preferred result estimate.
  11. 7% for "other":

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