Voting behaviour: social class
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- Created on: 04-12-18 14:39
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- Voting behaviour: social class
- AB
- Mostly Conservative
- Higher and intermediate managerial, administrative, professional occupations
- eg. banker, doctor
- C1
- Typically but not completely Conservative
- Supervisory, clerical and junior managerial, administrative, professional occupations
- C2
- Mostly Labour
- Skilled manual occupations
- eg. plumber, hairdresser
- DE
- Mostly Labour
- Semi-skilled and unskilled manual occupations; lowest grade occupations; unemployed
- Class dealignment
- Some lower-middle and working class voters aspired to be middle class so switched to Cnservative
- AB Conservative vote has declined in favour of parties like 'New Labour' - Blair attracted middle class support
- DE have voted less for Labour recently although returned under Corbyn
- Main parties, especially Lib Dem have tended to adopt policies which are more centrist and appeal to a wider class base over the last few decades
- Rise of other factors, especially valence
- AB
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