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Same-sex marriage

26 Sep 2017

Q. Do you support changing the law to allow same-sex couples to marry?

  Total   Vote Labor Vote Lib/Nat Vote Greens Vote other   5 Sep 19 Sep
Yes 58%   65% 47% 84% 48%   59% 55%
No 33%   25% 43% 10% 46%   31% 34%
Don’t know 9%   9% 9% 6% 7%   11% 11%

 

  Total   Men Women Aged 18-34 Aged 35-54 Aged 55+   Will

def-initely vote

Will prob-ably vote Will not vote Already voted
Yes 58%   52% 63% 65% 55% 54%   57% 43% 13% 72%
No 33%   38% 28% 28% 33% 39%   39% 35% 64% 26%
Don’t know 9%   10% 8% 7% 13% 7%   4% 22% 23% 2%

 

58% (up 3% from a week ago) support changing the law to allow same-sex couples to marry and 33% (down 1%) are opposed.

Those most in favour of changing the marriage laws are Labor voters (65%), Greens voters (84%), women (63%) and those aged 18-34 (65%).

72% of those who have already voted support same-sex marriage and 28% oppose. Those who are yet to vote but will definitely vote in the national survey are more likely than the average to oppose same-sex marriage (39%).

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