In the 50 top electorates with the highest proportion of “aspirational left” voters, just eight are Coalition-held seats.
Sarah Ho isn’t wedded to a particular political party. The marketing executive and mum of three, who lives in Lidcombe in Sydney’s west, always votes for the candidate whose policies align most with the health needs of her ageing parents, the education outcomes of her children, and someone who has“My vote is more towards what the future will be like for our kids. I would consider voting for anyone, not just the major parties,” Ms Ho said.
Often from migrant backgrounds, these voters from dual income households are veering away from the political right as they did at the last election, but they are also behind a surge in consumption of both private health and private schooling.Ms Ho’s electorate of Reid is one of the top 20 electorates around the country with the highest proportion of aspirational left voters, according to a new index created by Mr Black’s political profiling company Australian Development Strategies.
Australian National University politics lecturer Jill Sheppard said the index results were not surprising, as these voters felt spurned by the former Morrison government during last year’s election because of rising living costs.She said that such socially moderate but fiscally conservative voters were open to any party as they “don’t feel like there’s a home for them” in the Liberal Party.
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