Representative democracy? How Victoria's election candidates compare with voters

The average person in Victoria is a 37-year-old woman but the average state election candidate is a man in his mid-40s

The average person in Victoria is a 37-year-old woman, according to the 2016 Australian census.

But the average state election candidate running for Labor, the Liberals, Nationals or Greens is a 46-year-old man, according to analysis of a third of the 887 candidates registered with the Victorian Election Commission.

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