4 Voting behaviour and the media : 4.1

Question 1

What did New Labour cut

Answer 1

-nationalisation
-Clause 4
-strength of trade unions
-law and order
-(reduced primary school classes and cutting hospital waiting lists)

Question 2

Election Campaign (New Labour)

Answer 2

• public relations experts would handle media
  -targeted marginal seats
• • 12.5% in target seats
• • 13.4% in neglected constituencies

Question 3

voting behaviour and wider political context (1997)

Answer 3

-71.4% = all voters
-31 % votes for labour
-30.7% of conservative votes = lowest ever
-‘Black Wednesday’ Sep 1992
-sleaze scandals

Question 4

what did James Callaghan lose

Answer 4

vote of no confidence in the HOUSE OF COMMONS

Question 5

what were the number of seats of the different parties (1979)

Answer 5

CON = 339
LAB = 269
LIB = 11

Question 6

what were the number of seats increased and decreased of the different parties

Answer 6

CON = +62
LAB = -50
LIB = -2

Question 7

what was the percentage of popular votes for each party (1979)

Answer 7

CON = 43.9%
LAB = 36.9%
LIB = 13.8%

Question 8

what can be argued as the real reason Thatcher’s victory

Answer 8

-Labour Government’s weakness
-no signs of economic development from Labour

Question 9

who striked during the ‘winter of discontent’

Answer 9

(5% LIMIT ON PAY INCREASE)
-lorry drivers
-health workers
-refuse collectors
-gravediggers

Question 10

party policies and manifestos (THREE)

Answer 10

-reduce budget deficit (£163 Billion)
-make savings without affecting public services

Question 10

party policies and manifestos (CONSERVATIVES)

Answer 10

-immediate cuts
-from 2008, managed the mismanaged labour economy
-accused labour overspent (59% poll agreed)

Question 11

election campaign 2010 (CONSERVATIVES)

Answer 11

-targeted marginal seats early
-candidates for constituencies at local-level
-20 seats short after all that

Question 12

election campaign (LABOUR) 2010

Answer 12

-‘bigoted woman’
-Incident in Rochdale, Labour constituency

Question 13

election campaign (LIB DEMS) 2010

Answer 13

-2010 televised debate
-‘I agree with Nick’
-gain support in polls
-5 seats lost within coalition

Question 14

why did Brown not gain another term

Answer 14

-financial CRISIS (tories attacked)
-NATIONALISED banks on brink of failure
-MEDIA was harsh
-33% Cameron better
-29% Brown better

Question 14

what evidence shows that Conservatives never would have won with a working majority

Answer 14

-29% voters liked CON policies
-26% voters liked LAB policies
-36% voters chose neither