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Election campaign

17 May 2016

Q. The Federal Election will be held on 2nd July which means there will be an 8-week election campaign. Do you think an 8-week election campaign is too long, too short or about right?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other
Too long 52%   54% 55% 42% 64%
Too short 5%   5% 4% 8% 5%
About right 32%   35% 34% 34% 21%
Don’t know 11%   6% 6% 16% 10%

 52% think that the 8-week election campaign is too long and 32% think it is about right.

More than half of both Labor (54%) and Liberal/National voters (55%) think it is too long.

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