Malcolm Turnbull's apparent snub of voters in the key western Sydney seat of Lindsay hasn't done the government any harm, a new opinion poll shows.
The prime minister earned the ire of critics, including Tony Abbott's former chief of staff Peta Credlin who tagged him "Mr Harbourside Mansion", for cancelling a street walk in Penrith.
Yet a Galaxy Poll of 500 voters in Lindsay, published in the Daily Telegraph on Monday, has MP Fiona Scott leading her Labor opponent 54-46 per cent after preferences.
That's a better result for the coalition than 2013.
The news is not as good for the government in some of its other marginal seats in NSW, where the gaps are narrower.
Labor leads the coalition 51-49 in the south-western Sydney seat of Macarthur and in Gilmore on the south coast.
In Sydney's south, the parties are tied up at 50-50 in Banks as they are in Dobell on the Central Coast.
In the inner-west electorate of Reid, the coalition leads 51-49 per cent.
The poll indicates Labor might struggle to pick up the coalition seats in NSW it needs to win government on July 2.
Yet voters in all the seats polled thought Labor leader Bill Shorten would be a better prime minister for western Sydney than Mr Turnbull.
A Galaxy poll taken in the north Queensland seat of Leichhardt puts the sitting Liberal National Party member Warren Entsch in front of Labor's Sharryn Howes.
Mr Entsch leads Ms Howes 52-48 per cent in two-party terms, representing a swing of more than three per cent against the LNP.
However, his primary vote of 45 per cent is in line with the 2013 result.
The Greens are polling 10 per cent, while "others" are attracting nine per cent of the primary vote in the survey of 522 voters published in the Cairns Post.
Another Galaxy poll in the Townsville Bulletin shows sitting LNP member Ewen Jones just ahead of his Labor rival Cathy O'Toole, but suffering a three-point swing against him on his 2013 result.
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