greens party votes as cultural indicator
September 7, 2011 3:02 AM
can you please help me find a map of % greens party votes by electorate, or even better by polling station at recent elections in Australia.
I am intending to use this as measure of the fitzroy/berkeleyness of potential places to live.
and will combine this with weather data for maximum sunny days, plus beach proximity, and duration of the marine stinger season into my where shall we build our house algorithm.
cheers
mat
and will combine this with weather data for maximum sunny days, plus beach proximity, and duration of the marine stinger season into my where shall we build our house algorithm.
cheers
mat
yep I figured north coast would be on there
posted by compound eye at 4:03 AM on September 7, 2011
posted by compound eye at 4:03 AM on September 7, 2011
Federal, State or Council? The AEC site and the State iterations for State and LGA elections may be the best you're going to get. If you're willing to do a bit of digging, Ben Raue is a Greens bloke who's also a psephologist and mapper, who's done an amazing amount of work on Australian electorate totals here.
If you're looking to beach proximity, you're looking at inner Brisbane or inner west/east Sydney, or the Central Coast or North Coast of NSW. Look also at Newcastle, or Wollongong, though they're both pretty special in their own special de-industrialising ways. In both Newcastle and Wollongong the Greens have had strong recent electoral showings but the decline of the local Labor branches and shocking recent State Government are factors. Man, Noreen Hay. Sprayed with voter repellent.
If you're looking specifically to Fitzroy/Berkeleyishness, the Greens primary vote may not be your best proxy indicator. On the North Coast of New South Wales you're looking at Greens votes of the ageing seachangers who're moving specifically away from central dense urban environments. Be especially careful of the North Coast of New South Wales, where high localised Greens enclaves exist within very strong National Party and/or reactionary areas. Some of those towns are still pretty frighteningly segregated.
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 5:39 AM on September 7, 2011
If you're looking to beach proximity, you're looking at inner Brisbane or inner west/east Sydney, or the Central Coast or North Coast of NSW. Look also at Newcastle, or Wollongong, though they're both pretty special in their own special de-industrialising ways. In both Newcastle and Wollongong the Greens have had strong recent electoral showings but the decline of the local Labor branches and shocking recent State Government are factors. Man, Noreen Hay. Sprayed with voter repellent.
If you're looking specifically to Fitzroy/Berkeleyishness, the Greens primary vote may not be your best proxy indicator. On the North Coast of New South Wales you're looking at Greens votes of the ageing seachangers who're moving specifically away from central dense urban environments. Be especially careful of the North Coast of New South Wales, where high localised Greens enclaves exist within very strong National Party and/or reactionary areas. Some of those towns are still pretty frighteningly segregated.
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 5:39 AM on September 7, 2011
thank you fiasco
posted by compound eye at 4:15 PM on September 7, 2011
posted by compound eye at 4:15 PM on September 7, 2011
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I reckon I can save you some time, though, and would suggest far north coast NSW would have some booths that voted heavy green and win on the other criteria.
posted by bystander at 3:15 AM on September 7, 2011