Today’s Seat of the Day comes to you from the provinces of Victoria – Ballarat.
2007 Election Result and Two Party Preferred History
| Party | LP | ALP | GRN | NP | FFP | OTH |
| 07 Primary | 38.04 | 50.33 | 7.98 | 0 | 3.65 | 0 |
Age Profile, Family Composition, Housing and Migration
The final three categories in that last chart measure the proportion of the population that had the same address in 2001 as they did in 2006, the proportion of the population that moved location between 2001 and 2006 but moved locally (that is, moved houses within their Local Statistical Area – an ABS geographical category based on local government boundaries), and the proportion of the population that moved houses between 2001 and 2006, but moved from outside of their local area. Those last three stats gives us an idea of the size of the population growth/churn going on in a seat.
Income and Employment
Please note: Centrelink data is from 2008 and comes from the Dept of Human Services website.
Map comes from the Australian Electoral Commission.
All other data derives from the 2006 Census.
2 Comments
Not sure if this has been brought up before Poss but another variable is boundary changes brought about by redistributions.
Ballarat was for a long time a conservative seat but sometime in the 80s a major redistribution made it marginal. Not sure how you represent this though.
Barney, I think I’ll leave that sort of thing to Antony and Pollbludger – they know far more about it and have far more interesting things to say on the history of the politics and electoral boundaries than I ever possibly could.