Factors Affecting Voting Behaviour Flashcards
Name the for factors that affect INDIVIDUAL voting behaviour (5)
Policies-manifesto
Key issues- brexit
Performance in office- in prior years
Leadership-leaders must convince voters they are capable of running the country
Image-whole party (labour-anti-Semitic)
Tactical voting- prevent worse candidate from getting in
Define embourgeoisement
The so called movement into the middle class
Due to changes of jobs and levels of home ownership
Define class de-alignment
Less correlation between social class and the political parties
Define partisan alignment
When voters were loyal to one party unquestionably
Define float/swing voters
No specific political party and will often ‘float’ between the parties
What is the opposite of stability
Volatility
Explain Milbrath and Goel (1977)
Voters can be separated into three groups: gladiators, spectators, apathetic
How many people are part of labours political party in 2018
540,000
How many are part of conservatives political party in 2018
124,000
What did Pulzer say
‘Class is the basis of British Politics. All else is just embellishment and detail’
Explain stereotypical relationship between classes
Conservative - AB voters
Labour- C2DE
From 1945-80 social class was the ____ _______________ of voting behaviour
Key determinant
What is a good word to describe the Labour Party (p_______)
Progressive
Where in the world is there a major Christian party
Germany- Angela Merkal
Christian Democrats
What are the traditional correlations between parties and religion
Anglican=tories
Non conformists= liberal
Catholic= labour
In 2010 what percentage of anglicans votes conservative
43%
Which religious group have the greatest voter volatility
Non- conformists
Atheists
Agnostic
What percentage of Muslims favour Labour
73%
What are the traditional ideas for gender voting behaviour
Traditionally women vote for the progressive party which focus manifesto on domestic issues and welfare
Men vote for conservative which focus manifesto on the economy and foreign policy
In 2010 what percentage of ethnicity minorities voted labour
What of those with African heritage voted labour
68%
87%
What percentage was voter turnout amonst young people was up
16%
In 2017 what percentage of over 70s turned out to vote
84%
What are the traditional voter behaviour with region
Why is this
North = Labour South= Conservative
North more industrial-poorer-labour
South-richer-conservative
Where is a strong Lib Dem area-
What is the figure
South West
2005-10 all 5 MPs
Define psephology
The study of elections and voting behaviour
Define marginal constituency
A constituency where the sitting MP does not have a strong, clear lead over other candidates
Give an example of an election where there was high partisan alignment
1970 election- 88% of votes went to labour or conservative
Explain the modern class categories
ABC1C2DE
AB- high well paying jobs/ upper class
DE- unemployed unskilled jobs/ lower class
