In fits and starts, the Liberal Party is belatedly making the same transformation that has already occurred in the political parties of most other Western countries. Its voter base is becoming more heavily composed of the traditional working class, while it has been losing many of its upper-middle-class voters in ‘blue ribbon’ electorates to Labor, the Greens, and the Teals.

The pattern matches well the ‘somewheres’ vs ‘anywheres’ dichotomy used to analyse the UK situation by David Goodhart.