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The Guardian - AU
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Elias Visontay and Nick Evershed

A tale of two electorates: the marginal seats basking in election funding promises while neighbours ignored

Labor Coalition Gladys Liu Rebekha Sharkie Spence Whitlam Scott Morrison Chisholm Andrew Constance Boothby
Liberal member for Chisholm, Gladys Liu, with PM Scott Morrison and treasurer Josh Frydenberg in Box Hill, Melbourne in April. Liu hols the seat by a razor-thin 0.5% margin, and the Coalition have so far made $13.7m in local funding announcements this election campaign.
The Liberal member for Chisholm, Gladys Liu, with PM Scott Morrison and treasurer Josh Frydenberg in Box Hill, Melbourne in April. Liu hols the seat by a razor-thin 0.5% margin, and the Coalition have so far made $13.7m in local funding announcements for the electorate this election campaign. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

With just two weeks left in the federal election campaign, the Coalition and Labor have promised billions of dollars in local funding projects as they battle for key marginal electorates. But some neighbouring safe seats have so far received no funding promises at all.

An analysis of data from Guardian Australia’s pork-o-meter lays bare the seats being targeted by the major parties, with commitments to pour billions into one side of the electoral fence while neglecting the other.

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