Voters are seemingly turning off from Victorian Labor, with one poll showing the government would easily lose an election if it were held today.
A Herald Sun-obtained ReachTEL poll published on Wednesday shows Labor's primary vote at 30.3 per cent, while the coalition opposition is on 39.8 per cent.
Taken after the speaker and deputy speaker resigned over an entitlements scandal, the poll found Labor trails the coalition 46 to 54 per cent on a two-party preferred basis.
Premier Daniel Andrews dismissed the bad result.
"I don't comment on Liberal Party polling and I don't comment on polling more broadly," he told reporters on Wednesday.
But even a recent Essential Research poll Labor provided to AAP shows a slight dip in support.
The survey of 889 voters between February 9 and March 5 had Labor at 53 per cent on a two-party preferred basis, down from 54 per cent the month before.
This month's polls come after another ReachTEL poll for Fairfax in September had Labor holding a tight 51 per cent two-party preferred lead.
Mr Andrews acknowledged the entitlements scandal had hit the public's confidence in politicians.
Speaker Telmo Languiller and his deputy Don Nardella resigned in last month after being caught claiming a combined $140,000 in second residence allowances to live outside their electorates.
"Victorians are angry, and I'm angry too, that people have behaved as they have," Mr Andrews said.
"That's not acceptable and that's why the rules that govern these allowances will change."
Opposition leader Matthew Guys says the most recent ReachTEL poll didn't come from his party.
"I find it bizarre that no one in the Labor Party questioned a ReachTEL poll last year that had them two points ahead, now all of a sudden a ReachTEL poll shows them behind they question its validity," he told reporters.
More than 12 per cent of those polled by ReachTEL said they would vote One Nation, and the Greens have called on all political parties to preference the controversial party last at next year's state election.
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