1979 election

Question 1

Who won the 1979 election

Answer 1

Margret Thatcher

Conservatives

Question 2

Who was leader of Labour

Answer 2

James Callaghan

Question 3

How was the Labour party weak?

Answer 3

• Had lost a vote of no confidence
• Callaghan was unable to control the trade unions.
• Callaghan government was unable to address the social breakdown across the uk.
• The country was just recovering from ‘the winter of Discontent’ where there was mass strike

Question 4

What did Margret Thatcher used to pressure the Labour government

Answer 4

the ‘winter of discontent’

Question 5

age in the 1979 election

Answer 5

Age was less significant, with a similar level of support from 18-24 years old. 41% of them voted labour while 42% of them voted conservative.

Question 6

Gender in the 1979 elections

Answer 6

Women were slightly more likely to vote the conservatives than Labour. 47% of women voted conservatives, 35% voted labour

Question 7

Social class in the 1979 election

Answer 7

59% of the middle class voted conservatives. 
49% of the unskilled working class voted Labour.

Question 8

Influences of the media 1979 election?

Answer 8

• There was more media focus on the leaders
• Thatcher used television to raise her popularity
• The Sun newspaper switched to support conservatives instead of labour.

Question 9

What did the conservatives focus on?

Answer 9

Getting the economy going again and reducing unemployment.

Question 10

What did Thatcher Majority help her do?

Answer 10

Allowed her to begin transforming Britain by privatising public industries, reducing union strike and adopting monetarist economic policies.

Question 11

what did thatcher monetarist economic policy do

Answer 11

It cause the doubling of unemployment by 1983