Q. Whose interests do you think the Liberal Party mainly represent?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Working class | Middle class | Apr
2013 |
Aug 2014 | ||||
| Working class | 4% | 5% | 6% | 3% | 1% | 6% | 2% | 5% | 4% | |||
| Middle class | 15% | 8% | 28% | 7% | 11% | 13% | 19% | 20% | 17% | |||
| Upper class | 53% | 79% | 27% | 79% | 67% | 59% | 53% | 40% | 47% | |||
| All of them | 12% | 2% | 29% | 2% | 8% | 7% | 16% | 17% | 14% | |||
| None of them | 4% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 11% | 4% | 3% | 8% | 8% | |||
| Don’t know | 11% | 5% | 7% | 4% | 3% | 10% | 7% | 9% | 11% |
53% believe that the Liberal Party mainly represents upper class people and 15% think they represent the middle class. 79% of Labor voters and Greens voters think the Liberal Party mainly represent the upper class. 28% of Liberal/National voters think they represent the middle class and 29% think they represent all classes.
59% of respondents who describe themselves as working class and 53% of those who say they are middle class think the Liberal Party mainly represents the upper class.
Since this question was asked in August 2014, the proportion thinking that the Liberals represent the upper class has increased from 47% to 53%.