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Kennedy

Results and projection across recent federal elections.

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Projection for Kennedy

ONP
31.1%
LNP
10.9%
ALP
7.7%
GRN
6.2%

The line traces Kennedy's real 2025 primary vote forward using the polling trend for rural seats nationally — not a poll of this seat specifically, and that category has only around 28 polls tracked over 14 months across every seat of its kind in the country, so read the shape of the line as directional, not a precise forecast. The actual 2028 projection number (shown at the end of the line, in the table below, and everywhere else on the site) also blends in Qld.'s own state-level polling 50/50 with this classification trend — the chart just doesn't visualize that second component, so the end of the line glides onto the real, state-blended number over its final stretch rather than matching the classification-only shape exactly. There's only one projection number for Kennedy, this is just showing how the polling got there.

Katter's Australian Party wins in 80% of simulations
Katter's Australian Party 59.0%
One Nation 41.0%

Two-candidate-preferred, 2028 projection — the top two contenders are recalculated from the projected primary votes above (so a surging party can break into contention even if it wasn't one of the top two last election), and every other party's vote is distributed between them as preferences using standard flow assumptions, not seat-specific sourced preference data. The win-probability figure above comes from a separate 10,000-run Monte Carlo simulation (see the Election Map page for methodology) built on this same TCP margin — it's how often that margin survives national polling uncertainty plus seat-level noise, not a different projection.

Get to know the electorate

Kennedy

5.3%
Unemployment rate
0.2pt above Australia's 5.1% average
Classification
Rural
Created
1901
Size
567,377 km²
Current member
Bob Katter (Katter's Australian)
Population
171,402
Median age
40
Median household income
$1,414/wk
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
14.8%

Ancestry

European
50.9%
Australian
34.1%
Indigenous
12.5%

People could report up to two ancestries. Grouped by region from the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller regions outside that list aren't counted.

Language spoken at home

English only
80.6%
Cape York Languages
1.0%
Italian
1.0%
Punjabi
0.7%
Hmong
0.4%

Language spoken most often at home.

Religious affiliation

Christian
38.6%
No Religion
35.6%

All people. Christian combines denominations in the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller denominations outside that list aren't counted. Other faiths shown individually.

Education (highest level attained)

High School
44.3%
TAFE Educated
28.4%
University Educated
11.2%

People aged 15+. University Educated: Bachelor degree or higher. TAFE Educated: Certificate or Diploma. High School: no further qualification.

Housing

Owned (No Mortgage)
35%
Renting
30%
Owned (Active Mortgage)
29%

Households. Owned (No Mortgage) / Owned (Active Mortgage) / Renting.

Occupation

Blue collar
52%
White collar
46%

Employed people (15+). White collar: Managers, Professionals, Clerical & Administrative, Sales. Blue collar: Trades, Community & Personal Service, Machinery Operators, Labourers.

Past Results | Kennedy

20222025Projection
ALP16.1%16.4%7.7%
LNP28.2%23.8%10.9%
GRN6.4%5.9%6.2%
ONP0.0%7.8%31.1%
Katter's Australian Party46.1%40.4%40.4%
Other0.0%4.1%2.6%
Independent3.2%1.7%1.1%

Latest update: 2 October 2026