Dear Antonios Symeonakis,

You are receiving this email because you completed a poll on The National Forum site about Petro Georgiou’s private member’s bills on mandatory detention and because you said you were interested in follow-up information.

This email is to report on just how responsive individual politicians were to the petition. We also did some analysis of the poll results and we thought you might be interested in them as well.

Summary of parliamentarians’ responses to online petition

1. In one-third of federal electorates at least one signatory said they had been contacted by their local member as a result of the poll
2. In only 7 seats did more people say they had been contacted than said that they hadn’t
3. The best response rate was from Anthony Albanese, the member for Grayndler
4. The next two best were Kate Ellis and Kevin Andrews

Summary of analysis of poll signatories

1. The seat with the largest number of signatories was Melbourne, followed by Sydney.
2. There were four seats with only one signatory – Farrer, Parkes, Maranoa and Calwell.
3. The top postcode was 3070 (Northcote in Victoria), followed by 3068 (Clifton Hill, Fitzroy North) and 3056 (Brunswick).
4. Signatories were predominantly drawn from inner city locations on the eastern seaboard, with some significant rural exceptions, such as a cluster in northern New South Wales.
5. Labor electorates figured more highly than Liberal electorates in areas most inclined to sign the petition, with two-thirds of the top 15 seats favouring the petition being held by the Labor party.
6. Labor electorates represented less than half of those areas least inclined to sign the petition, with 7 of the bottom 15 seats.