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On elections, voting and participation:

1978; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00323267808401645

0032-3268

Malcolm Mackerras,

Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism

Summary To summarise, there were five interesting features of the election: (i) the size of the first preference movement from the major parties to the Australian Democrats; (ii) the unexpected lack of any significant swing to Labor in the two‐party preferred vote; (iii) the notable uniformity of the results from state to state; (iv) such swing to Labor as did occur was mainly in seats already held by Labor and in urban areas; and (v) the results demonstrate that the electoral boundaries still contain a bias against Labor. Notes Due to limitation of space this article deals only with the House of Representatives election. Details of Senate results and further details of the House election can be obtained by writing to the author to obtain his Statistical Analysis of the 1977 elections. (Electoral Monograph No. 5, Department of Government, Duntroon.)