Parties and Social Class

Q. Whose interests do you think the Labor Party mainly represent?

	Total		Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens	Vote other		Working class	Middle class		Apr 2013	Aug 2014
Working class	39%		47%	42%	27%	32%		40%	44%		30%	41%
Middle class	17%		21%	13%	29%	20%		16%	19%		16%	14%
Upper class	10%		6%	11%	14%	16%		14%	7%		13%	8%
All of them	8%		15%	4%	7%	5%		5%	8%		8%	8%
None of them	13%		2%	23%	9%	21%		12%	13%		22%	16%
Don’t know	13%		9%	8%	15%	6%		13%	9%		11%	13%

39% believe that the Labor Party mainly represents working class people and 17% think they represent the middle class. 47% of Labor voters think the Labor Party mainly represents the working class and 29% of Greens voters think they mainly represent the middle class. 23% of Liberal/National voters don’t think they represent any class.

40% of respondents who describe themselves as working class and 44% of those who say they are middle class think the Labor Party mainly represents the working class.

The results are not substantially different from those when this question was asked in 2014.