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 | May 2016 | ||||
| Working class | 3% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 4% | 2% | 5% | 4% | 4% | |||
| Middle class | 17% | 7% | 32% | 8% | 8% | 13% | 20% | 20% | 17% | 15% | |||
| Upper class | 52% | 77% | 29% | 73% | 60% | 55% | 54% | 40% | 47% | 53% | |||
| All of them | 10% | 2% | 21% | 1% | 9% | 7% | 11% | 17% | 14% | 12% | |||
| None of them | 8% | 4% | 7% | 4% | 16% | 10% | 6% | 8% | 8% | 4% | |||
| Don’t know | 11% | 5% | 7% | 12% | 6% | 12% | 6% | 9% | 11% | 11% |
52% believe that the Liberal Party mainly represents upper class people and 17% think they represent the middle class. 77% of Labor voters and 73% of Greens voters think the Liberal Party mainly represent the upper class. 32% of Liberal/National voters think they represent the middle class and 29% think they represent the upper class.
55% of respondents who describe themselves as working class and 54% of those who say they are middle class think the Liberal Party mainly represents the upper class.
The results are not substantially different from those when this question was asked earlier in 2016.