What percentage of Australian voters vote for the party and what percentage for the leader?

I mean what would agree with Tony Abbotts analogy "same product different saleman"


Obviously many in the labor party would not as they changed leaders and then had an election called almost immediately|||The leader of the Liberal Party is Tony Abbott and his electorate is Warringah. He has to be elected to parliament for that electorate and after that his colleagues in Parliament - both the House of Representatives and the Senate choose him as Leader of the Opposition.





The same applied to Julia Gillard - She was elected by the electors for the seat of Lalor and then chosen by her Labor colleagues as leader of the Parliamentary Labor party and therefore Prime Minister.





The percentage of Australian voters voting Labor was 50.4% or 5,410,236 votes and those voting Liberal was 49.6% or 5,325,027 votes. Check http://vtr.aec.gov.au/.





The leaders - Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will only have got the votes that they received in their own electorate.


Tony Abbott's Results in Warringah


http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionFirst鈥?/a>


Julia Gillard's results in Lalor


http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionFirst鈥?/a>





I hope that this information helps to answer your question.





Cheers!!!|||People vote based on what they are presented with. Despite the fact that they technically do not vote for a leader, but for a representative and senators, many vote based on the way the leader presents and is presented.