Intergenerational Voter Preference Survey - Preliminary Results ...

From numbers represented in Figures 1 and 2, we have weights to find number of votescast by each age group under Demeny voting. This is shown in Figure 3. We see thatage group 35 to 49, the work force population and generation with children, controlmore votes, as intended.Figure 3: Weighted and Unweighted Votes by Age GroupDemeny Voting BlockUnder Demeny Voting rule, parents will cast the proxy votes of their children. We willrefer to the sum of Demeny Eligible voters and their proxy votes as Demeny VotingBlock. Figure 3 shows how the Demeny Voting Block among the survey respondentsare distributed by age groups.We can also get an approximation of how the Demeny Voting Block in the generalelectorate from the 2010 Population Census. (Figure 4). This is an estimation becausethis is based on people who live with children 18 and under, the only publishedinformation that contains relevant information (Aoki and Vaithianathan 2010). Theactual Demeny Eligible and Demeny Voting Block will be larger.6