Steve Bulbrook reckons he's swung towards and around all the major parties, and in the seat of Bass — one of Australia's most volatile electorates — he's not alone.
"I never would be regarded as a party voter, I've always been a swing voter," said Ms Anderson.Covering 7,975 square kilometres, Bass takes in the city of Launceston and rural areas in Tasmania's north-east corner.
At the last federal election, the Liberals'"three amigos" were wiped out in Tasmania. This time around, the marginal seats of Bass and Braddon are again the ones to watch, Ellen Coulter writes. Electoral analyst Dr Kevin Bonham said that diversity helps explain why the electorate is so unstable. "It's a finely balanced seat between Labor and the Liberal Party in terms of the long-term voting averages," he said.
"There are a lot of seats that are purely rural or purely urban that, as a result, lean heavily to one side or the other, whereas Bass doesn't have a large enough core of areas that are strongly one way or the other to make that happen."Newsagent Jeff Dolbey became a swinging voter in the last two elections, based on the issues important to him.
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