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Voting behaviour

26 Apr 2017

Q. Thinking about your voting in Federal and State elections, which of the following parties have you voted for over the last 10 years?

  Total   Liberal Nation-al Labor Greens One Nation PUP Nick Xeno-phon Team Family First Other party Indep-endent
Liberal or National Party 48%   100% 27% 26% 52% 61% 53% 44% 37% 47%
Labor Party 47%   26% 100% 58% 43% 52% 55% 49% 60% 57%
The Greens 18%   10% 22% 100% 16% 21% 30% 43% 33% 32%
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation 8%   9% 8% 7% 100% 47% 6% 13% 20% 14%
Palmer United Party 1%   2% 1% 2% 7% 100% 4% 9% 6% 3%
Nick Xenophon Team 5%   5% 5% 8% 3% 15% 100% 27% 5% 10%
Family First 3%   3% 3% 8% 5% 22% 19% 100% 7% 7%
Some other minor party 3%   3% 4% 6% 8% 17% 4% 7% 100% 12%
An independent 11%   11% 13% 19% 19% 22% 24% 23% 39% 100%
Not sure 7%  

 

48% of voters said they had voted Liberal/National in the past 10 years, 47% have voted Labor and 18% for the Greens.

13% of voters have voted for both Labor and Liberal/National in last 10 years.

29% have only voted Liberal/National, 23% have only voted Labor and 5% have only voted Greens

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