Title: Typology of Local Patterns of Voter Support for Political Parties At the 2004 Federal Election
Abstract: A distinctive spatial pattern has emerged for the Coalition and Labor vote in Australian federal elections, with voting landscapes associated with the particular demographic and socio-economic characteristics of local areas. The authors used Australian Electoral Commission data on voting at the polling booth level and socio-economic data on the areas surrounding each booth taken from the 2001 census. These two data sets were combined into a database, now available online. The current article describes the general socio-economic location of voters for the main political parties in 2001, and uses the model developed from these data to predict voting outcomes in 2004.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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