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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).
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.
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.
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.
Fifteen parties are registered with the NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC). [21] Bold text indicates parliamentary parties.
| Date | Firm | Sample size | Margin of error | Primary vote | TPP vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALP | L/NP | GRN | IND | OTH | ALP | L/NP | ||||
| 17–22 Oct 2025 | DemosAU [22] [23] | 1,016 | ±4.0% | 37% | 30% | 13% | — | 20% | 59% | 41% |
| 9–13 Sep 2025 | Resolve [24] [25] [h] | 38% | 28% | 10% | 11% | 12% | 59% | 41% | ||
| 13–18 Jul 2025 | Resolve [26] [27] [h] | 1,054 | 38% | 32% | 13% | 8% | 10% | 57% | 43% | |
| Mar–14 Apr 2025 | Resolve [28] [29] [i] | 1,123 | 33% | 36% | 11% | 14% | 6% | 51% | 49% | |
| 24–26 Mar 2025 | DemosAU [30] [31] | 1,013 | ±4.0% | 33% | 34% | 14% | — | 19% | 54% | 46% |
| 18–23 Feb 2025 | Resolve [32] [33] [h] | 29% | 38% | 14% | 11% | 8% | 49% | 51% | ||
| 8 Dec 2024 | Resolve [32] | 33% | 37% | 11% | 13% | 7% | — | — | ||
| 6–20 Nov 2024 | Redbridge [34] [35] | 1,088 | ±3.4% | 37% | 41% | 9% | — | 13% | 50.5% | 49.5% |
| Sep–Oct 2024 | Resolve [36] [37] [h] | 1,111 | 32% | 37% | 11% | 14% | 6% | 50% | 50% | |
| 6–29 Aug 2024 | Wolf & Smith [38] [39] | ±2.2% | 32% | 38% | 12% | 14% | 4% | 50% | 50% | |
| 11 Aug 2024 | Resolve [40] [41] [i] | 1,000 | 30% | 38% | 12% | 14% | 6% | 49% | 51% | |
| 16 Jun 2024 | Resolve [42] [43] [i] | 1,000 | 32% | 35% | 11% | 15% | 7% | 52% | 48% | |
| Feb–May 2024 | Redbridge [44] | 1,376 | 35% | 40% | 11% | — | 14% | 50.5% | 49.5% | |
| 21 Mar–21 Apr 2024 | Resolve [45] [j] | 1,000 | 33% | 36% | 12% | 14% | 5% | 52% | 48% | |
| 25 Feb 2024 | Resolve [46] [47] [i] | 1,035 | 34% | 38% | 12% | 12% | 5% | 51.5% | 48.5% | |
| 11 Nov 2023 | Resolve [48] [49] [i] | 1,100 | 36% | 32% | 13% | 12% | 7% | 57% | 43% | |
| 10 Sep 2023 | Resolve [50] [51] [i] | 1,019 | 38% | 36% | 9% | 13% | 4% | 54% | 46% | |
| 16 Jul 2023 | Resolve [52] [53] [i] | 1,012 | 41% | 32% | 10% | 11% | 5% | 58% | 42% | |
| 14 May 2023 | Resolve [54] [55] [i] | 1,102 | 44% | 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% | ||
| Date | Firm | Sample size | Margin of error | Primary vote | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALP | L/NP | GRN | ONP | LCA | LBT | SFF | AJP | FFP | OTH | ||||
| 17–22 Oct 2025 | DemosAU [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% | ||
| Date | Firm | Better Premier | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minns | Speakman | Don't know | Net | ||
| 17–22 Oct 2025 | DemosAU [22] [23] | 44% | 25% | 31% | +19% |
| 9–13 Sep 2025 | Resolve [24] | 37% | 16% | 47% | +21% |
| 13–18 Jul 2025 | Resolve [26] | 35% | 16% | 49% | +19% |
| Mar–22 Apr 2025 | Resolve [28] | 40% | 15% | 45% | +25% |
| 24–26 Mar 2025 | DemosAU [30] | 42% | 24% | 34% | +18% |
| 23 Feb 2025 | Resolve [32] | 35% | 14% | 51% | +21% |
| 6 Oct 2024 | Resolve [36] | 37% | 14% | 49% | +23% |
| 11 Aug 2024 | Resolve [40] | 38% | 13% | 49% | +25% |
| 16 Jun 2024 | Resolve [42] | 38% | 13% | 49% | +25% |
| 21 Apr 2024 | Resolve [45] | 37% | 16% | 47% | +21% |
| 25 Feb 2024 | Resolve [46] | 35% | 16% | 51% | +19% |
| 5 Nov 2023 | Resolve [48] | 35% | 13% | 52% | +22% |
| 10 Sep 2023 | Resolve [50] | 41% | 14% | 45% | +27% |
| 16 Jul 2023 | Resolve [52] | 39% | 12% | 49% | +27% |
| 14 May 2023 | Resolve [54] | 42% | 12% | 46% | +30% |
| Date | Firm | Minns | Speakman | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satisfied | Dissatisfied | Don't know | Net | Satisfied | Dissatisfied | Don't know | Net | ||
| Feb–May 2024 | Redbridge [44] | 40% | 20% | 40% | +20% | 19% | 21% | 60% | -2% |
My 2PP estimate 59.0 to ALP (+1.3) #nswpol
My 2PP estimate 50-50 (my Aug estimate was 51.2 to L-NP) #nswpol