Assignment 3

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2025-06-19

The Decrease in First Preference Votes for a Major Party

  • The amount of voters choosing one of the major parties as their first preference has been decreasing over time.

Two Party Preferences

Two Party First Preference Votes

  • There’s a clean trend of first preferences favouring the Coalition regardless of the total vote.

Two Party First Preference Flow

  • Latter preferences consistantly favour Labor.

Citations

  • AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSION. (2025). Australian Electoral Commission. Australian Electoral Commission. https://www.aec.gov.au/