Democracy in the UK: Voting Behaviour

Question 1

What are the three factors that are considered to play a role in voting behaviour

Answer 1

Age, Social Class and media

Question 2

Describe the correlation between age and voting behaviour

Answer 2

Traditionally, it has been shown that younger people are more likely to vote labour

Question 3

Give evidence of the correlation between age and voting behaviour

Answer 3

According to a YouGov survey, in the 2019 election 56% of the 18-24 age group supported Labour compared to only 28% of the 50-59 age group supporting Labour.

Question 4

What does this evidence show about age and voting behaviour?

Answer 4

The difference between the amount of support labour received in each age group tells us that age may play a significant role in voting behaviour

Question 5

(Analysis point about age)

Answer 5

However, it can be argued that age has not always played a significant role as…

Question 6

Describe how media can have an effect on voting behaviour

Answer 6

Because print media is allowed to be biased in its reporting it can miss out certain elements to influence their readers into voting for the party they support.

Question 7

Evidence of the effect that media can have on voting behaviour

Answer 7

In 2019 the top 5 read newspapers supported the conservatives with a combined 5 million readers and they won.

Question 8

What does this evidence show about media and voting behaviour

Answer 8

This shows that what the newspapers print can actually influence the way in which they vote as if these newspapers supported another party then the conservatives may have won.

Question 9

(Analysis about media and voting behaviour)

Answer 9

However, the effect that print media can have may be lessening due to the fact that newspaper readership is on the decline and that viewership of other unbiased sources of media is going up

Question 10

(Analysis of media and voting behaviour) provide evidence

Answer 10

TV debates were found to help roughly 35% of voters decide who they want to vote for.

Question 11

Describe the effect of Class on voting behaviour

Answer 11

It tends to be the case that those from lower classes such as Class DE were more likely to vote for labour.

Question 12

Evidence of The link between class and voting behaviour

Answer 12

in the 2017 election 47% of the class DE voted for labour while only 37% of the class AB voted labour the same year

Question 13

What does this evidence show (class)

Answer 13

This shows that those in the lower classes were more likely to vote labour while those in higher classes less likely to do this

Question 14

(Analysis about class)

Answer 14

However, it can be argued that in recent years class has not been as much of a significant factor as it has been in the past

Question 15

Evidence for analysis about class

Answer 15

Labour MP Tristam Hunt has said he believes that nationalism has replaced social class as a factor in voting behaviour