Impact of income, unemployment and education

This chart shows how much the two-party-preferred (2PP) vote differs between an ‘average’ electorate and electorates with either high incomes (ie. incomes in the top 10%), high unemployment or high levels of education.

The figures indicate impact on Coalition’s 2PP vote (%). For example, in 2016, an electorate with incomes in the top 10% had, on average, more than 15% higher vote for the Coalition than the average electorate (on a 2PP % basis).

Incomes include median family, household and personal incomes.

The analysis looks at more than 30 different socio-demographic characteristics from the Census. The ‘average’ electorate is constructed using the average value (either mean or median, across all electorates) for each of these.