General Election 2017 0.0 / 5 ? Government & PoliticsParticipation and voter behaviourASAQA Created by: getrevisinggCreated on: 03-04-18 13:35 Turnout 68.8% 1 of 46 2015 turnout 66.6% 2 of 46 turnout increase 02.2% 3 of 46 Conservative Theresa May - 317 seats 4 of 46 Conservative lost.. 13 seats 5 of 46 Labour Jeremy Corbyn - 262 seats 6 of 46 SNP Nicola Sturgeon - 35 seats 7 of 46 Liberal Democrats Tim Farron - 12 seats 8 of 46 Manchester attack 20 percentage lead for May (deals candidate for UK secuirty) 9 of 46 Secuirty - Conservative global co-operation, more government control and regulation on the internet and the Trident system 10 of 46 Secuirty - Labour criticised cuts in number of police and voted against couter-terrorism 11 of 46 Social care - Conservative pensioners: eliminating pension triple lock and winter fuel payments 12 of 46 CONSERVATIVE POLICY BLUNDER fox hunting and dementia tax 13 of 46 Labour and UKIP voters gained their votes through hard Brexit 14 of 46 TV debate May & Corbyn not attending ITV debate in May 15 of 46 consequences of may in HOC lost her majority- minority government 16 of 46 south conservatives were popular 17 of 46 north labour were popular 18 of 46 London labour 19 of 46 scotland sup 20 of 46 hung parliament needed 326 votes for an absolute majority: party needs to remain united especially, on Brexit 21 of 46 discrepancy - not proportional won 42.2% of the vote and 48.9% of the seats 22 of 46 PM's mantra "strong and stable" 23 of 46 7%... openly LGBT in the HOC 24 of 46 "good leaders don't turn away" Tim Farron - MAY & CORBYN not coming to the tv debate just before election 25 of 46 2015 slim majority 26 of 46 AGE first time voters: Labour (47% lead) Over 70+: Conservative (50% lead) 27 of 46 AGE 47 - crossover between Labour and Conservative 28 of 46 AGE TURNOUT 18-24:57%. 70+:84% 29 of 46 CLASS (sociological theory) Cons: C2 Labour: DE (class gap has narrowed- Thatcherism) 30 of 46 EDUCATION High: Labour Low: Conservative 31 of 46 NARROW GENDER GAP FEMALE: (43%:43%) MALE: (45%:39%) - men are unlikely to vote LABOUR 32 of 46 CONSERVATIVE NEWSPAPER Telegraph, Times, The Sun and Daily Mail 33 of 46 LABOUR NEWSPAPER Mirror, Guardian and Independent 34 of 46 CENTRIST NEWSPAPER Financial Times 35 of 46 DOMINANT IDEOLOGY The Sun supported the winning party every election 36 of 46 Invalid votes 74,000 37 of 46 declaration no local elections - 73% voted declared before 4am (2015:27%) 38 of 46 Opinion polls - Labour April: 25% - June: 35% 39 of 46 Opinion polls- Conservative constant from April to June (lead over Labour - 45%) 40 of 46 Opinion polls - SNP constant from April to June 41 of 46 Donations Cons: 208 Lab: 68 (registered) 42 of 46 By-elections (10 from 2015-17) 6: Labour 3: Conservative 1: Liberal Democrats 43 of 46 Copeland 2017(Cons gain from Lab hold) T= 51.3% Cons=44% Labour=37% 44 of 46 Copeland - GE conservative (trudy Harrison) 45 of 46 Labour gained.. Portsmouth South, Kensington and Canterbury 46 of 46
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