The General Elections Flashcards
The majority Thatcher got in 1983
144
The majority Johnson got in 2019
80
The majority Blair got in 1997.
179
The % switch from Tory to Labour in 1997.
10%
The % switch from Labour to Conservative in 2019
18%
Loses of Labour in 1983?
-51 seats
Loses of Labour in 2019
59 seats
2019 was Labour’s worst election since
1935
Turnout of the 2019 election
67%
77% turnout in
1997
The biggest demographic voting in 1983 was
Over 55s
University educated people were more likely to vote (in 2019)
For Labour
50% of young people voted
Labour in 2019
70% of people from ethnic minority backgrounds voted for…
Labour in 1997
Gender was not at all a significant factor in …
2019
58% of those with
A GCSE or below level education, voted Tory in 2019
50% of young people aged
18-24 voted Labour in 2019
May lost how many seats in the 2017 election that forced her to go into a confidence and supply agreement with the DUPs __ mps
- 13,
10 mps
How many people voted for UKIP in 2015?
How many seats did they get?
Over 3 million
Only 1 seat
How many seats did the SNP get in 2015?
50 seats.
56/59 seats I
How many seats out of __ did the SNP get in 2015?
56/59
The Liberal Democrats have only _ seats after the 20__ election
8 seats
2015
The Liberal Democrats lost __ seats in 2015.
49 seats lost
The Tories in 1997 lost ___ seats.
178 seats
What examples from 1997 are worth pointing out to demonstrate how preposterous the result of FPTP was on UKIP in 2015?
The Tories only got 30% of the vote in 1997, they got 167 seats
43% of the vote went to Labour
18% of the vote in 2015 went to
UKIP
Both Genders in ____ were most likely to vote …
1997
Labour
The 1974 election was called because Edward Heath’s government were facing
Enormous strike action from the Miners
What’s an example of an election where no one wins a majority?
1974.
What were the results of the 1st 1974 election?
301 - Labour
297 - Heath
A hung parliament
What was Wilson’s majority in the second 1974 election?
3 seats
6 million votes in 1974 went to
The Liberal Democrats
In 1974 the Liberal Democrats only picked up __ seats.
14 seats
The second election in 1974 was held during…
Winter, October
In confrontation with the miners Unions in 1974, Heath called an election because…
He said his government needed a majority to deal with the crisis effectively
Enoch Powell in 1974, a prominent Right Wing Mp, did what that may have influenced the election?
What is this an example of?
Powell told voters to vote Labour because they, unlike Heath’s conservatives, said they wanted to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s entering into the EEC (1972)
It’s an example of political thought leaders encouraging a particular outcome.
