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 | Electorates with a land area of more than 100,000km² (40,000 mi²) are permitted to have a variation of 20% in recognition of the difficulty of representing the sparsely populated north and east of the state. |
| This is because the authors of the Australian Constitution had two objectives: to reproduce as faithfully as possible the Westminster system of parliamentary government, while creating a federation in which there would be a division of powers between the national government and the states, regulated by a written Constitution. |
| Australian politics are influenced by social and economic demographics, though the correlation between "class" and voting is not always simple [9]. |
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