The Nationals face an electoral wipeout at next’s year’s NSW election, with independent polling suggesting they could lose all their 11 lower house seats, as One Nation threatens to strike a fatal blow after years of atrophying membership of the 106-year-old rural-based party.
Internal polling paints a slightly better picture than the electoral annihilation currently signalled by pollster RedBridge, but Nationals members with knowledge of the numbers say the party is braced for a demoralising loss of at least six seats.
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