Two new opinion polls show more voters want three key independent MPs to back Labor to form a minority government.

Bob Katter, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor will spend the weekend considering which party to support to form government.

As the trio deliberate, a Newspoll survey – published by News Limited – show 47 per cent want the independents to back Labor.

The poll of 1,134 voters, conducted on Monday and Tuesday, shows 39 per cent want the Coalition to be given the chance to form government.

Meanwhile, a JWS Research poll, published in Fairfax newspapers, found 37 per cent want the country trio to support Labor.

The poll of 4,192 voters also showed support was lower for the Coalition, with 31 per cent of voters wanting the independents to side with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.

But for 26 per cent of voters, the preferred option was to go back to the polls.

The poll found that if there was another election, the Coalition would have a small lead in the two-party-preferred vote.

However, it also showed that another election would result in a hung parliament again.

The three key independents have spent the week getting briefings from senior government bureaucrats, as well as Labor and Coalition frontbenchers.

They will not make their decision until they have finalised a document on parliamentary reforms and that could still take some days, but they do plan to decide early next week.

Federal Parliament is still deadlocked with Labor guaranteed 74 votes and the Coalition 73.

This week Labor gained the support of Melbourne Greens MP Adam Bandt and the Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie.

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Source: The ABC News

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