The General Elections

Question 1

The majority Thatcher got in 1983

Answer 1

144

Question 2

The majority Johnson got in 2019

Answer 2

80

Question 3

The majority Blair got in 1997.

Answer 3

179

Question 4

The % switch from Tory to Labour in 1997.

Answer 4

10%

Question 5

The % switch from Labour to Conservative in 2019

Answer 5

18%

Question 6

Loses of Labour in 1983?

Answer 6

-51 seats

Question 7

Loses of Labour in 2019

Answer 7

59 seats

Question 8

2019 was Labour’s worst election since

Answer 8

1935

Question 9

Turnout of the 2019 election

Answer 9

67%

Question 10

77% turnout in

Answer 10

1997

Question 11

The biggest demographic voting in 1983 was

Answer 11

Over 55s

Question 12

University educated people were more likely to vote (in 2019)

Answer 12

For Labour

Question 13

50% of young people voted

Answer 13

Labour in 2019

Question 14

70% of people from ethnic minority backgrounds voted for…

Answer 14

Labour in 1997

Question 15

Gender was not at all a significant factor in …

Answer 15

2019

Question 16

58% of those with

Answer 16

A GCSE or below level education, voted Tory in 2019

Question 17

50% of young people aged

Answer 17

18-24 voted Labour in 2019

Question 18

May lost how many seats in the 2017 election that forced her to go into a confidence and supply agreement with the DUPs __ mps

Answer 18

• 13,
  10 mps

Question 19

How many people voted for UKIP in 2015?
How many seats did they get?

Answer 19

Over 3 million

Only 1 seat

Question 20

How many seats did the SNP get in 2015?

Answer 20

50 seats.

56/59 seats I

Question 21

How many seats out of __ did the SNP get in 2015?

Answer 21

56/59

Question 22

The Liberal Democrats have only _ seats after the 20__ election

Answer 22

8 seats

2015

Question 23

The Liberal Democrats lost __ seats in 2015.

Answer 23

49 seats lost

Question 24

The Tories in 1997 lost ___ seats.

Answer 24

178 seats

Question 25

What examples from 1997 are worth pointing out to demonstrate how preposterous the result of FPTP was on UKIP in 2015?

Answer 25

The Tories only got 30% of the vote in 1997, they got 167 seats

43% of the vote went to Labour

Question 26

18% of the vote in 2015 went to

Answer 26

UKIP

Question 27

Both Genders in ____ were most likely to vote …

Answer 27

1997
Labour

Question 28

The 1974 election was called because Edward Heath’s government were facing

Answer 28

Enormous strike action from the Miners

Question 29

What’s an example of an election where no one wins a majority?

Answer 29

1974.

Question 30

What were the results of the 1st 1974 election?

Answer 30

301 - Labour
297 - Heath

A hung parliament

Question 31

What was Wilson’s majority in the second 1974 election?

Answer 31

3 seats

Question 32

6 million votes in 1974 went to

Answer 32

The Liberal Democrats

Question 33

In 1974 the Liberal Democrats only picked up __ seats.

Answer 33

14 seats

Question 34

The second election in 1974 was held during…

Answer 34

Winter, October

Question 35

In confrontation with the miners Unions in 1974, Heath called an election because…

Answer 35

He said his government needed a majority to deal with the crisis effectively

Question 36

Enoch Powell in 1974, a prominent Right Wing Mp, did what that may have influenced the election?

What is this an example of?

Answer 36

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.