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Interest in Federal Election
Q. How interested are you in this federal election?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other or indep. | Don’t know/ refused vote | |
| More than previous elections | 17% | 18% | 23% | 15% | 16% | 5% |
| About the same | 66% | 76% | 68% | 67% | 52% | 42% |
| Less than previous elections | 11% | 5% | 9% | 13% | 32% | 22% |
| Don’t know | 5% | 1% | * | 4% | - | 31% |
66% said that they had about the same interest in this election as previous elections – 17% had more interest and 11% less interest. Liberal voters were more interested (23% more) than Labor (18% more) and Greens voters (15% more).
Women (19%more/9% less) were somewhat more interested than men (16% more/13% less).
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Two Party Preferred: 30 Jan 2012
Labor
46+/- 0
Coalition
54+/- 0
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