“People who catch COVID tend to be younger demographics who are more likely to vote left,” he said.
“It may also be related to employment, you may also have … more left-wing voters working in industries where they are also more likely to be exposed to COVID. I have no evidence of that, but that’s what I suspect that might be the case. “
Health department data show that the number of COVID-19 cases is higher among people between the ages of 20 and 29.
The only seats where Labor voted lowest in the COVID-19 booths were Blaxland, McMahon, Lingiari, Kingston, Wills and Cooper, the Liberals’ benches and the seat of Mallee’s nationals.
The Electoral Commission of Australia has established special telephone voting arrangements for people who caught the virus or had to isolate themselves according to health regulations the week before voting on 21 May. People were able to make phone calls in a two-step registration and voting process. , and a poll worker read his ballot and voted. Although the rate of informal voting was much lower than that of the general population, there were still a handful of informal votes cast by telephone to all voters.
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Eligibility of those who could vote by telephone was changed the day before the election to ensure that people who had fallen ill but did not request a vote by mail in time were not deprived of their rights.
In all, 75,368 votes were cast by people who called to be assisted by AEC workers. A quarter of these were people living in the seats of Western Australia, where the state was experiencing its first major wave of COVID-19 after ending national border restrictions in March.
There were an average of 1,291 telephone voters in each WA seat, followed by an average of 803 voters in South Australia. In the rest of the country, the average was 381 people who voted by phone. There are an average of 113,000 registered voters in each constituency.