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Senate outcome

19 Jul 2016

Q. Do you think the changes made to Senate voting prior to the election have produced a more democratic outcome in the Senate?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other
More democratic 20%   21% 22% 20% 26%
Less democratic 15%   20% 14% 15% 11%
Made no difference 39%   34% 45% 28% 46%
Don’t know 26%   24% 19% 37% 17%

20% thought that the changes to Senate voting had produced a more democratic outcome and 15% thought they produced a less democratic outcome. 39% thought they made no difference and 26% did not know.

There were no significant differences across demographic or voter groups.

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