Gay marriage survey, Australia 2017

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Results are out in 12 minutes.

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61.6% say Yes

NSW - 57.8%

ACT - 74%

133 electorates said yes, 17 said no

[ilikeverin]

The polls were not too shabby, it looks like.  Hooray!  (but what nonsense)

[ilikeverin]

Results here: https://marriagesurvey.abs.gov.au/results/

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95 electorates had gay marriage Yes votes higher than 60, 7 electorates with No votes over 60.

[kyc0705]

Well done, Australia! I hope the parliament will act quickly in acknowledging the will of the people.

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Looks like a lot of the relatively high No votes come from Labor held Sydney interestingly enough - McMahon, Parramatta, Fowler, Watson, Werriwa and, most of all, Blaxland.

[ilikeverin]

Looks like a lot of the relatively high No votes come from Labor held Sydney interestingly enough - McMahon, Parramatta, Watson and, most of all, Blaxland.

Yep.  Besides those, I'm seeing countryside QL seats and two immigrant-rich Labor-held Melbourne seats.  Hmm.  As if we need more evidence to Please Not Treat Every Country Like It's The US!

[parochial boy]

I mean, a higher Yes vote in Qld than NSW is actually kind of hilarious

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fwiw the notorious Oxley seat has 60.3% Yes

The No seats in Queensland are Katter's seat of Kennedy, the other giant rural seat of Maranoa and narrowly Groom (Toowoomba and its surrounding rural areas).

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I mean, a higher Yes vote in Qld than NSW is actually kind of hilarious

The true fun is this officially crowns Tasmania and West Australia as the two wokest states.

[parochial boy]

fwiw the notorious Oxley seat has 60.3% Yes

The No seats in Queensland are Katter's seat of Kennedy, the other giant rural seat of Maranoa and narrowly Groom (Toowoomba and its surrounding rural areas).

Isn't Mt Isa famously like 80% male? I would have thought gay marriage would be popular there...

I mean, a higher Yes vote in Qld than NSW is actually kind of hilarious

The true fun is this officially crowns Tasmania and West Australia as the two wokest states.

I guess the argument that legalising gay marriage would lead to legalising incest goes down well in Tasmania?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Good, I guess.

[Tintrlvr]

Looks like a lot of the relatively high No votes come from Labor held Sydney interestingly enough - McMahon, Parramatta, Fowler, Watson, Werriwa and, most of all, Blaxland.

What are the demographics like in those places? Lower income I assume. Recent immigrants? Or longer-term European-background? Mostly not of English background?

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Quite heavily ethnic. Blaxland, Parametta and Watson especially has a high concentration of Muslims.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BziTBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=Blaxland+ethnicity&source=bl&ots=V0_JVlmGTs&sig=if_8CqckOiYYPvkfWf3NbG-oEjA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxlqK3qL_XAhVRJewKHeeaCksQ6AEIQDAF#v=onepage&q=ethnic&f=false

[Hydera]

Looks like a lot of the relatively high No votes come from Labor held Sydney interestingly enough - McMahon, Parramatta, Fowler, Watson, Werriwa and, most of all, Blaxland.

What are the demographics like in those places? Lower income I assume. Recent immigrants? Or longer-term European-background? Mostly not of English background?

While the talk was mostly amongst the immigrant chinese and indian communities. The group strongest against gay marriage was the muslim community areas in Sydney, followed by the Indian and then chinese areas.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Margaret Court won't be happy. Good.

[MAINEiac4434]

This should confirm that Adelaide is the best city in Australia.

[Intell]

# Please tell me again how Sydney is the progressive bastion.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Woohoo!

[Antonio the Sixth]

What's up with rural Queensland that makes it so different from neighboring areas in NT, Victoria and NSW?

[Hydera]

What's up with rural Queensland that makes it so different from neighboring areas in NT, Victoria and NSW?

The electorate belongs to Bob katter a self proclaimed social conservative socialist.




Also its really rural(only a few small towns across tons of desert and really christian. While NSW's rural electorate voted for yes the population density isnt as long as in Rural queensland.

[Antonio the Sixth]

a self proclaimed social conservative socialist.

I gotta say, that is fascinating.

[Hydera]

a self proclaimed social conservative socialist.

I gotta say, that is fascinating.

I wouldnt make much out of it. He always prefers the Coalition over Labor because of social conservatism.