The success and failure of parties Flashcards
How can electoral systems advantage or disadvantage parties?
Fist Past The Post benefits larger parties e.g in 2016 general election UKIP won 12.6% of the vote but only one seat while SNP won 4.7percent of votes but 56 seats
How does leadership influence party popularity?
Jeremy Corbyns leadership is cited as a reason for Labours poor performance in 2019 general elections whereas the leadership of Farage and Sturgeon helped their parties over perform
How does media coverage impact a parties popularity?
Negative coverage of UKIP in 2017 meant their vote share dropped from 12.6% in 2015 to 1.8%. The press were also critical of Corbyn who performed badly in 2019
How does a large membership help a parties campaign?
In 2017 Jeremy Corbyns leadership helped the party’s campaign during 2017 as thousands of volunteers were mobilised to canvess voters
How do non political events impact party support?
2008 financial crisis damaged the Labour party and led to a decline in support
Name some policies that made a negative difference to parties
Lib Dems pledge to revoke Article 50 in 2019 was a major factor in the party’s poor performance
How has access to funding improved a parties performance?
Brexit party’s success at 2019 European Parliament elections was attributed to their backing from wealthy donor Arron Banks
How does the UK have a 2 party system?
Electoral strongholds are Lbour or Conservative.
In 2019 the Greens, SNP and Brexit party won a share of the vote but it was spread across the country
How does the First Past the Post system favour a 2 party system?
2019 Brexit party won over 2 million votes, but failed to win a sibgle seat
The ay in which parties are funded makes it difficult for smaller parties to break conservative and labour dominance
Do devolved assemblies have a 2 party system?
No Scotland is governed by a coalition of SNP and Scottish Greens
How have smaller parties challenged the 2 major parties in Scotland?
2019 SNP won 48 out of 59 seats
Greens 1 seat
Lib Dems 11 seats
Conservatives and Labour combined won 51% of the vote the lowes ever recorded for 2 major parties
