Elections
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- Elections
- Who can vote?
- Everyone over 18
- UK citizens abroad for 20 years
- MHA 1983 sectionees
- Prisoners
- Violation of 4 ECHR rulings - still no change by Parliament
- Electoral fraudsters (for five years)
- Votes at 16 trialled during 2014 Scottish independence referendum - 85% turnout among 16-24 year olds
- Labour and Liberal Democrats failed to introduce for 2016 EU referendum due to government use of financial instrument to prevent defeat in HoL
- All mainstream parties support Votes at 16 except Conservative
- June 2015 - 100,000 strong petition from Greens, Labour, Lib Dems and others presented calling for Votes at 16
- All mainstream parties support Votes at 16 except Conservative
- Labour and Liberal Democrats failed to introduce for 2016 EU referendum due to government use of financial instrument to prevent defeat in HoL
- UK citizens + ROI and Commonwealth residents in UK
- Everyone over 18
- UK citizens abroad for 20 years
- MHA 1983 sectionees
- Prisoners
- Violation of 4 ECHR rulings - still no change by Parliament
- Electoral fraudsters (for five years)
- Votes at 16 trialled during 2014 Scottish independence referendum - 85% turnout among 16-24 year olds
- Labour and Liberal Democrats failed to introduce for 2016 EU referendum due to government use of financial instrument to prevent defeat in HoL
- All mainstream parties support Votes at 16 except Conservative
- June 2015 - 100,000 strong petition from Greens, Labour, Lib Dems and others presented calling for Votes at 16
- All mainstream parties support Votes at 16 except Conservative
- Labour and Liberal Democrats failed to introduce for 2016 EU referendum due to government use of financial instrument to prevent defeat in HoL
- Everyone over 18
- Voters must register individually to vote - changed in 2015 from postal household method
- Up to 800,000 voters lost by not re-registering
- Govt: Most ever signed up at 2015 GE
- Up to 800,000 voters lost by not re-registering
- Everyone over 18
- How does voting work?
- 650 MPs in Parliament -constituencies
- Voters vote for candidate to be MP in Parliament
- Safe seats - one party has a large majority of votes and cannot be easily lost - usually core support for parties
- Bootle - Labour
- Henley - Oxfordshire
- Senior party members are sometimes "parachuted" into safe seats to ensure that they can carry on in Parliament and/or government if their former seat becomes unsafe.
- Marginal seats - narrowly held seats that can be lost by a small swing of voters - usually election deciders
- Telford - Conservative
- CIty of Chester - Labour
- Safe seats - one party has a large majority of votes and cannot be easily lost - usually core support for parties
- Party with most MPs in Commons becomes government
- Majority one party government usual - more seats than all others combined
- 1974 Feburary
- 2010 coalition
- Majority one party government usual - more seats than all others combined
- Planned to be 600 - 2010 coalition agreement + 2015 Conservative manifesto pledge (in progress)
- Blocked by Lib Dems over HoL reform filibuster by Tories
- Resumed in 2015 by Cameron government
- Would likely affect Labour most - inter-city exodus - more seats with less people in,mostly working class - Labour core group
- Blocked by Lib Dems over HoL reform filibuster by Tories
- Tactical voting - voters vote for parties other than their first choice to keep another party out when they cannot win.
- ERS - 9 million would vote tactically in 2015 due to over and underaward of votes to parties with seats
- Widescale tactical voting in 1997 by Labour/Lib Dem voters to defeat Conservatives - attributable to loss of Michael Portillo's seat.
- Voters vote for candidate to be MP in Parliament
- 650 MPs in Parliament -constituencies
- Take place every 5 years - Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011 set fixed dates unlike previously -PM's discretion
- Votes of No Confidence result in election being called immediately
- Who can stand as a candidate?
- Bankrupts, clergy, Peers, civil servants, judges, army officers
- Anyone who can pay £500 (returned if 5% vote achieved) and is a UK, Commonwealth or ROI citizen
- Must be nominated by 10 constituents
- Boundary commission
- Adjusted every 15 years due to population change by merging/creating constituencies
- Based on decade-old population data(due to length of time to survey) so always outdated.
- Creates Labour bias due to failure to account for inner-city exodus
- BUT neutralised in 2015 due to loss of Scottish seats to SNP creating Conservative bias
- Adjusted every 15 years due to population change by merging/creating constituencies
- Who can vote?
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