Using the latest Australian Electoral Commission data, they’re about this size.
That data is worth having a look at as it lists the size of these age cohorts for each electorate.
UPDATE:
If your name is George Megalogenis, look into my eyes….
You are getting sleepy.
That link doesn’t actually work. In fact, this whole post doesn’t actually exist.
There will be no gazumping of articles on marginal seats and demographic blocks.
When I tap you on the shoulder you will awake, refreshed, and find the need to attack Andrew Bolt in a blistering article for next week.
(tap)
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I looked at the age cohort and thought ‘Blimey there’s a lot of them old codgers” [I should mention I’m getting close to that age range.
Then I noticed its the only graph that is not for a 5 year range but is plain 70+.That covers a few years.
What would it look like if it was consistent with the rest of the graphs?
Fredex, the AEC just bunched all the oldies up into the 70+ group in their raw data so I can’t actually pull enrollment stats out in any smaller sized cohort than those listed above.
It’s a pity as I was interested in the location of the 80+ demographic.
fredex – interesting point. Would it follow the general downward trend of the preceding cohorts – ie diminishing returns for the conservatives?
DR,
One would imagine. If we look at the raw numbers of the Australian population from the Census for that group aged 70 to 100 ( which is not quite the same thing as electoral enrollments, but close) we get:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/files/2008/12/pop70.png