Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Education and Election Swings

My friend Bruce Mills analysed the results of ANU's Australian Election Study 2004 and found a whole lot of interesting correlations regarding demography and voting patterns in the last Federal Elections.

One particularly interesting conclusion was that of the 20 most-educated seats, 14 swung to Labor whereas of the 20 least educated seats, only 2 swung to Labor.

Perhaps it explains why the Howard government is reluctant to spend on education.

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