Voting Behaviour And Participation

Question 1

How many adults could vote in 1831?

Answer 1

5%, 450,000 out of 25 million

Question 2

Which act increased the number of adults able to vote to 99%?

Answer 2

1969 Represntation of the people act

Question 3

When can people not vote?

Answer 3

An EU citizen, a member of the House of Lords, convicted criminal, severely mentally ill, convicted of an illegal electorate practice

Question 4

What was the electorate turnout in 1960?
In 2001?
2005?

Answer 4

1950- 83.9
2001- 59.4%
2005- 61.4%

Question 5

How does a low electoral turnout effect the country?

Answer 5

Democracy/ ineffective gov/ ineffective opposition/ weakening legitimacy/ mandate

Question 6

What two categories can political participation be put in to?

Answer 6

Electoral and non electoral

Question 7

Give 3 ways that we can deal with the electoral turning head on

Answer 7

Reducing the voting age
Compulsory voting
Experimenting with SMS text voting
Encouraging a greater take up by postal voting

Question 8

Give 3 evidences of people who/when are less likely to vote

Answer 8

75%- of 16-18 year olds in Scottish referendum
44% of 18-24 voted in 2010 election
This would increase votes but the percentage turnout figure would fall

Question 9

Give some examples of compulsory voting

Answer 9

Australia 1920s- 39.4%
1925- 91.4%
Quality of votes- civil liberty
Local-28.8% 1998

Question 10

Give reasons 3 for compulsory votes

Answer 10

Teaches the benefits of political participation/ a civic duty like paying taxes/ parliament reflects more accurately the will of the electorate

Question 11

How many people who read the guardian voted labour in 2015?

Answer 11

62%

Question 12

How many people who read the telegraph voted con?

Answer 12

69%

Question 13

How many turned out who were 18-24 in the 2015 election?

Answer 13

43%

Question 14

How many tuned out to vote who were 65+?

Answer 14

78%

Question 15

How many old people voted Tory?

Answer 15

47%

Question 16

How many young people voted labour?

Answer 16

43%

Question 17

How many of the AB social class voted con?

Answer 17

45%

Question 18

How many people of the DE class voted labour?

Answer 18

41%

Question 19

What was the Scottish referendum turnout?

Answer 19

84.6%

Question 20

What was the EU referendum turnout?

Answer 20

72.2%

Question 21

What was the Scottish referendum turnout of 16/17 year olds?

What was the Scottish referendum turnout of 18-24 year OLDs?

Answer 21

75%\ 54%

Question 22

What was the EU referendum turnout for 18-24 year olds?

Answer 22

64%

Question 23

What was the turnout of the N.E assembly referendum?

Answer 23

48%

Question 24

What happened in the N.I referendum in 1973?

Answer 24

The govt ignored the result

Question 25

What was Lab/con vote share in 2001?

Answer 25

72.4%

Question 26

What was Lab/con seat share in 2015?

Answer 26

67.3%

Question 27

What was the turnout of the 2015 GE?

Answer 27

66.1%

Question 28

What was the 1951 GE turnout?

Answer 28

82.6%

Question 29

What was the vote share of Lab/Con in 1951?

Answer 29

96.8%

Question 30

What percentage of ppl vote con who earned 70k?

Answer 30

51%

Question 31

How much was spent by all parties in the 2015 election campaign?

Answer 31

111m

Question 32

How much was given in donations?

Answer 32

66m