24 October

The deliberative poll winds up in Canberra. Among the 350 delegates, there was a huge shift favouring YES case from 53% as surveyed six weeks before the event to 73% today, while support for direct election plunged dropped dramatically. Analysts were cautious about interpretation of the result in favour of the YES vote on 6 November but noted that the more informed people were about both sides of the argument for the republic, the less likely they were to support direct election.