ALP faces a rout as the west deserts Kevin Rudd Kevin Rudd, with Bill Shorten, visits a trades hall meeting in Geelong, Victoria yesterday. KEVIN Rudd is facing an electoral wipe-out in western Sydney west with seats held by Labor for up to 70 years forecast to fall on September 7 in a political routing of the party's heartland. At least five seats, including ones once held by Labor luminaries such as Gough Whitlam, stand to be lost to the Coalition with swings of up to 8 per cent against Labor. An exclusive poll of marginal Labor seats across Sydney has revealed that Reid, Werriwa, Lindsay, Greenway and Banks, would all be lost if an election were held this weekend. Parramatta was also at risk of changing hands at 50/50 with Barton the only seat among the seven that Labor would have a chance of retaining. The dire poll numbers will greet the Prime Minister this morning as he begins a "blitz" of western Sydney seats. He will also be faced with the finding that Tony Abbott was now regarded across western Sydney as the leader who would better represent their interests. The only exception was in the seat of Barton. With just two weeks left in the election campaign, western Sydney voters appear intent on punishing the government by handing Tony Abbott seats held by Labor since the 1920s and 30s. In all seven seats, regardless of the way they intended to vote, the majority believed the Coalition would win the election. The Galaxy poll of 550 voters in each seat, commissioned by The Daily Telegraph, reveals that the largest swing is expected in Laurie Ferguon's seat of Werriwa - where the 8 per cent swing in 2010 is forecast to be repeated again with a 10 per cent swing to the Liberal Party. This would deliver the seat once held by Gough Whitlam and Mark Latham, and a Labor seat since 1934, to the Coalition on 52/48 two party preferred vote. In the neighbouring seat of Reid, held by Labor since 1922 - and being vacated by John Murphy - the swing toward the Coalition was seven per cent. If this changed hands it would be the first time in its history. The story was similar in Banks, which has been Labor since its creation in 1949. The polls suggest this would fall on a two party preferred vote to the Coalition of 52/.48. Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury would also lose his seat of Lindsay comprehensively with a two party preferred vote of 54/46. Labor would also narrowly lose Greenway despite the accident prone Liberal candidate Jaymes Diaz giving Labor hope that it could retain it. The Greens vote has also collapsed across most seats, and in some cases has been cut in half. But the swings against Labor were not uniform across western Sydney seats, and ranged from between two per cent to 8 percent. Labor will be buoyed by the likelihood it would retain Barton, in spite of a six per cent swing against Labor in the seat held by retiring former Attorney General Robert McClelland. The poll is considered the most comprehensive conducted so far in the campaign and based on a sample size considered by pollsters as very large and with a small margin of error. "If the results of this poll are observed at the ballot box on 7 September the Liberal Party look set to pick up as many as five seats in western Sydney currently held by Labor," Galaxy research CEO David Briggs said. This is a consequence of declining primary support for Labor and a significant drop in Green support that will impact on the preference flow to Labor and make it that much harder for Labor to retain seats in its traditional heartland. A similar marginal seat poll of three seats in Victoria has revealed similar sized swings, of up to six per cent, and the likely loss of at least two seats - Corangamite and La Trobe. Labor would likely retain the seat of Chisholm held by the former Speaker Anna Burke.