What was claimed
A polling company found 35 per cent of Australians who speak a second language at home would vote for One Nation.
Our verdict
False. The figure comes from an inaccurate graphic that has now been fixed.
AAP FACTCHECK - A poll did not find that 35 per cent of people who speak a second language at home intend to vote for One Nation, despite claims online.
The figure is based on an erroneous graphic published by polling firm DemosAU on June 22, which it later corrected.
However, social media posts sharing screenshots of the erroneous graphic have attracted thousands of views.
One X user pointed to the original graphic on the day it was published.
"35% of people who have a second language at home are voting for One Nation," the caption said.
"Hhhmmm their entire narrative that ON is a racist party falls apart here."
A Facebook user who shared the graphic wrote: "The numbers appear genuine. The bigger question is what they tell us about modern Australia."
The graphic was published on the DemosAU website, based on the results of its June 2026 federal politics poll.
It showed participants' voting intentions broken down by category, including age, sex, education level and salary.
It also included a breakdown of the voting intentions of those who speak a language other than English at home.
Of that category, 35 per cent intended to vote One Nation, while 21 per cent said they would vote Labor, according to the original graphic.
The inaccurate graphic was published on June 22, but DemosAU director Evan Schwarten said it was fixed the next day.
"There was an unfortunate error in the only graphic published alongside the article about the poll on our website," Mr Schwarten told AAP FactCheck.
"The full report, which was available for download on our website, had the correct numbers.
"It was a simple human error in copying and pasting the numbers that led to the One Nation and Labor figures being in the wrong columns."
The corrected figures showed 21 per cent of those who speak a language other than English at home intended to vote One Nation and 35 per cent intended to vote Labor.
The graphic now includes a note stating the previous figures were an error.
"This table has been updated," the note says.
"An earlier version unfortunately had the incorrect figures in the Other Language at Home row. This has now been corrected. We apologise for any confusion."
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