One Nation support surges with women, wealthy, city voters

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation now has more women supporters than men, according to an analysis of a year’s worth of polling by the Resolve Political Monitor, while the number of young people, well-off and people living in the inner city who support the party has surged in the last year.

Analysis of a year of data from the Resolve poll, conducted for this masthead, shows One Nation has significantly expanded its reach and appeal across all demographics, ages, income and education levels.

And while a typical One Nation voter is still more likely to be aged over 55, living in a rural or regional area and be either retired, unemployed or holding a trade qualification, rising support for the party across the board underscores the growing threat Hanson’s outfit poses to both major parties.

Hanson told this masthead that women were flocking to One Nation because “women voters are seeing what I’ve warned about”.

“These woke ideologies being taught in classrooms, boys in girls’ toilets, men in women’s sport, the late-term abortion changes,” she said.

“The uni parties have gone too far and are breaking the spirit of Australian households.”

In the most recent Resolve Political Monitor, One Nation recorded 24 per cent of the primary vote, just four percentage points behind Labor’s 28 per cent and ahead of the Coalition on 23 per cent.

Hanson said on Monday that she was ready to be prime minister, should One Nation’s polling deliver her the numbers to form government. The veteran senator, 72, is considering a move to the lower house and is said to be eyeing either the Coalition-held seats of Capricornia and Wright or the Labor-held seats of Oxley and Blair.

The Resolve analysis covers 12 months of polling from May 2025 to May 2026 and is broken up into quarterly data. The sample size for each set of quarterly data is about 5400 people, and has a margin of error of about 1.3 per cent.

Twelve months ago, just after the last election, 7 per cent of men and 6 per cent of women said they would vote for One Nation. Since then, support among men has risen to 22 per cent and among women it has risen to 24 per cent.

One Nation’s primary vote at the last election was 6.4 per cent.

Party member Railene Turner, 56, said she thought One Nation made women feel heard.

“I don’t think that people feel heard by the major parties, and I think that the younger demographic – not just women – want somewhere to go, and I think that because Pauline is, she’s a real person, you know, like the One Nation candidates are real people, they don’t pretend they’re perfect,” she said.

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