Participation & Voting Behaviour- GP1
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- Created on: 18-10-16 22:00
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- Participation & Voting Behaviour
- General Population
- Electorate = Those people that are eligible to vote in an election
- Voter Turnout = The percentage of registered voters who cast a ballot in a given vote
- People who cannot vote
- Children under 18
- Migrants (You must be registered as a UK National)
- Refugees
- People with a severe mental illness
- Prisoners
- Queenie
- Members of the HoL
- People convicted of corrupt/illegal electoral practices
- Electorate = Those people that are eligible to vote in an election
- Electoral Participation
- Voter Turnout
- The turnout for the Gower in the GE2015 was 69.2%
- Differences in constituencies depends on a variation of factors
- Marginal/Safe seats
- Media Coverage of a seat
- Average age of a constituency
- Local Politics
- The affluence of an area
- WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO VOTE?
- GENDER: female
- CLASS: C2 & DE less likely to participate than AB & C1
- ETHNICITY: White
- AGE: OLDER
- Why voter turnout varies in some elections
- Second Order Elections
- E.G
- By-elections
- Local council elections
- PCC elections
- London Mayor
- Welsh Assembly
- European Parliament
- People feel that these elections are less important, and do not influence their lives as directly
- E.G
- Apathy
- 'elections don't matter'/ 'all parties are the same'
- Can't be bothered to vote- the benefits are not great enough
- General passivity towards political institutions
- 'elections don't matter'/ 'all parties are the same'
- Hapathy
- Happy enough with the way things are
- Many attribute the low turnout of GE2001 with this- productive, growing economy
- Happy enough with the way things are
- The Media
- FARAGE
- Influence specific constituencies
- Decline in partisanship (Partisan dealignment)
- No longer the strong 'pull' of loyalty to a specific party
- 'My dad voted labour, I'll vote labour'
- Other, more general things like the weather, or the availability of the polling station
- Second Order Elections
- Voter Turnout
- Non-Electoral Participation
- Membership of a political party
- More than 500,000 people are now members of the labour party
- If there is strong non-electoral participation, then generally the electoral participation increases
- E.G. Labour and the rise of Corbyn
- Sounds like an edgy band name
- People are generally more enthused
- E.G. Labour and the rise of Corbyn
- Forming a pressure group
- Green Peace
- Protesting
- E.g. Recent protests against Fracking
- Membership of a political party
- General Population
- THINK: Little White Old Ladies
- Differential Turnout = National turnout figure recorded at GE masks the difference in turnout by constituency/region
- TO BE CONTINUED
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