Parties and Social Class

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%.