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Executive director of EMC research Peter Lewis told BuzzFeed News he was surprised by the results, so ran the poll again.

"I thought it would be more than the actual Hanson vote, but the actual level of support surprised me," said Lewis.

"I was worried it was what we call a ‘rogue poll'... so we repeated and got the exact same result."

Essential's research polls are sent out to around 8,000 people online every week, with respondents given "points" as incentives to complete the poll.

The company's poll before the 2016 election, was within 0.1% of the final two-party preferred result.