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When Australia went to the polls for the federal election in May last year, the two major parties combined for 66.4% of the vote, their lowest share since the founding of the Liberal Party over 80 years ago.
Despite fluctuations in their combined force in federal politics, as indicated by their share of the primary vote, the trend has been consistently downward since the last high point in 2007 (85.5%).
Since then, each and every federal election has brought a weaker and weaker performance overall, with the largest single-cycle fall coming in the 2022 election, when the major’s share of the vote fell by 6.4 percentage points.
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Tarric is an Australian freelance journalist and independent analyst who covers economics, finance, and geopolitics. Tarric is the author of the Avid Commentator Report. His works have appeared in The Washington DC Examiner, The Spectator, The Sydney Morning Herald, News.com.au, among other places.