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Did child care help swing the election? : Comments
By John Cherry, published 1/8/2016In marginal seats with large numbers of families using childcare, the Government did much better than in seats with low numbers of families using childcare.
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Child care assistance disproportionately benefits the upper middle class. All that happened was that safe coalition seats swung less against the government than happened for less safe seats, which is what you would expect. It does not necessarily indicate that child care policy in itself was the reason.