Election stats Flashcards
2015 Conservative % of vote
38% vote share
2015 UKIP % of vote and seats won
13% vote share Won one seat
2015 SNP % of vote and % of seats won
50% of vote share Won 95% of seats
% of votes wasted in 2015
50%
% of Votes for Tories in 2015 that they didn’t need to win
24%
Votes for Greens and Ukip in 2017 and seats won
1.1 million votes Won one seat
Thatchers conservatives lead among upper class
35%
Tory advantage among upper classes in 2017
4%
Labour lead among BME voters 2017
54 points
Labour lead among 18-24 year olds 2017
35%
% of Daily Telegraph voters voted Tory
79%
% of the electorate voted for 2 main parties in 1970
88%
Tory seats in London after 1997 election
11
YouGov data shows that every 10 years a person ages, the likelihood of voting Conservative increases by
9%
2017 turnout increase among 18-24 year old’s from 2015
16%
Under STV Sinn fein gained what _% of votes and _/108 seats
24% votes 28/108 seats
%of votes Sadiq Khan received
56%
% Turnout for 1998 Do you support the Good Friday agreement?
81%
Turnout among 16-17-year olds for scottish referendum 2014
75%
2016 EU referendum the percentage of people willing to vote changed from _% in March to _% on polling day
48% to 71%
Hereditary peers in HoL
92
Thatcher majority after 1983 election
144 seats
Date of Blair first defeat in Commons
2005
Blair largest majority
179 seats
