Some Aspects of the Geography of Political Participation in Western Australia

D Rumley
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D Rumley: Department of Geography, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009, Australia

Environment and Planning A, 1980, vol. 12, issue 6, 671-684

Abstract: The paper discusses three aspects of the geography of political participation—enrolment, turnout, and informal voting—for the compulsory electoral system of Western Australia. The considerable variation in percentage enrolment by electorate is explained in terms of an underprivileged and a privileged model, with the former being the more relevant. Spatial variations in turnout are explained in terms of an alienation and a duty model, with the former being the more important from a politicogeographical perspective. Attempts to explain spatial variations in informal voting in terms of either a political illiteracy or a political literacy model are found to be inadequate.

Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1068/a120671

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