Kevin Rudd has a better chance of winning an election than Julia Gillard and voters would rather have him as prime minister, according to the latest Galaxy Poll.
The poll, published in the Herald Sun on Saturday, shows 52 per cent of voters want Mr Rudd as leader, compared with 26 per cent who want Ms Gillard to keep the job.
Almost six out of 10 people said the independents should force an early election if Ms Gillard is dethroned.
The poll of 1020 people showed the government's two-party preferred vote would rise slightly from 46 per cent under Ms Gillard to 49 per cent under Mr Rudd.
While Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has a healthy 54-46 per cent lead over Ms Gillard in two-party terms, the lead narrows to 51-49 over Mr Rudd.
Labor would lose about 14 seats under Ms Gillard at the next election and six under Mr Rudd.
Having Mr Rudd as leader of the Labor Party would bring Labor back into contention, said Galaxy Research pollster David Briggs.
Forty-six per cent of those polled said Mr Rudd was a good leader while half said Ms Gillard had failed to deliver.
Almost six out of 10 want Mr Rudd back because the way he was overthrown by Ms Gillard in 2010 was unfair.
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