School of Politics & International Relations

Voter volatility and not populism behind Australia’s shock election result: ANUpoll title

Research from The Australian National University (ANU) has shed new light on how voter volatility was behind the Coalition’s shock win in the 2019 Federal Election.
As part of the ANUpoll series of surveys, Associate Professor Nicholas Biddle examined voter volatility – or changes in who Australians said they would vote for in the lead-up to the May election, and who they actually voted for on Election Day.

He found more than a quarter of those surveyed ended up voting for a different party than the one they’d indicated.

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