What is Tactical&Protest&Swing&Churn?

Question 1

What is tactical voting?

Answer 1

This is where an individual chooses to vote for a candidate that is not his or her preferred candidate in order to prevent the candidate they favour least being elected

Question 2

What is protest voting?

Answer 2

This is where voters back a candidate/party other than their normal choice in order to send a message to their ‘natural’ party or to the government of the day

Question 3

In what elections do protest votes usually occur?

Answer 3

• European Parliament

- Local elections

Question 4

What is swing?

Answer 4

A measurement of the movement of votes from one party to another between one election and the next expressed as a percentage

Question 5

What is churn?

Answer 5

This is where large numbers of voters switch they support between parties, between elections, while the headline statistics remain the same

Question 6

What was the swing in 2001?

Answer 6

1.8%

Question 7

What was the national swing in 2010?

Answer 7

4.94%

Question 8

In 2010 what was the swing from Labour to Conservatives in the South West Devon?

Answer 8

11.7%