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Main reason for voting Labor
Q. Which of the following is the main reason you would vote for the Labor Party if there was an election today?
I always vote for the Labor Party |
28% |
The Labor Party has been a good Government |
11% |
The Liberal Party would not be a good Government |
4% |
I don’t want Tony Abbott to be Prime Minister |
35% |
The Labor Party have better policies than the Liberal Party |
10% |
I would be personally better off under a Labor Government |
8% |
Other reason |
2% |
Don’t know |
2% |
More than one third said the main reason they would be voting Labor was they don’t want Tony Abbott as Prime Minister.
28% said they always vote Labor and 11% said the Labor Party had been a good Government.

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