Comments on: There’s power in the pink vote /opinion/soapbox-opinion/theres-power-in-the-pink-vote/3192 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Andrew M. Potts /opinion/soapbox-opinion/theres-power-in-the-pink-vote/3192#comment-9809 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:18:34 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=3192#comment-9809 Clarification: when expressed as a percentage of the total vote, the GLBT vote going to Labor is 3 percent of first preference votes and around 4.5 percent after preferences.

However when expressed as a percentage of Labor’s support base those figures double to 6 and 9 percent respectively- ie the GLBT community supplied just under one in ten of the votes the Rudd Government relied on in taking power.

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