What affects voting behavior?
- Created by: krishmaq
- Created on: 11-03-14 20:45
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- What affects voting behavior?
- Age
- Older are more traditional and vote Conservative
- Set in their ways
- Younger are more idealistic and vote Labour
- Don't vote as much
- Older are more traditional and vote Conservative
- Gender
- Women less likely to take risks= Conservative
- Hard working men= Labour
- Gender gap closing= less relevant
- Location
- Inner cities + North = Labour
- Countryside + S.E (except London) = Conservative
- Devon/Cornwall= Lib Dems
- Social Class
- Working class vote Labour
- Big welfare state
- Higher taxes
- Trade Unions
- Middle/upper class vote Conservative
- Lower taxes
- Smaller welfare state
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- CLASS DE-ALIGNMENT
- Shift in middle ground
- Not voting for normal parties
- Impotartance of social class is lessening
- Teachers/Drs vote labour
- "White van man"/ "Essex man" vote Conservative
- Tony Blair trying to capture m/c
- Embourgoiusement
- Working class vote Labour
- Ethnicity
- E.M less likely to vote
- More likely to vote labour
- Equality & not anti-immigration
- Enoch Powell "Rivers of Blood" speech= less likely to vote Conservative because of reducing immigration
- Religion
- Catholics/ Protestants vote differently
- Importance of religion is no longer relevant
- Strong influence on Ireland
- Age
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