Turnout in general elections has been falling since 1979 (76%)
1997 - 71.3%
2001 - 51%
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Participation Crisis +
Party membership has fallen since the 1950s due to there being fewer party activists
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Participation Crisis +
Turnout can be seen as even lower in European, local and other elections
PCC 2012 - 15.1%
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Participation Crisis -
Turnout levels have recently started to grow again - in 2017 the turnout was 69%
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The number of members of pressure groups has increased: BLM protests last summer after the murder of George Floyd
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Participation Crisis -
Under Jeremy Corbyn the membership of the Labour party increased by over 200,000 members - some arguing that Corbyn reinvigorated the youth.
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Participation Crisis -
E-petitions are a way of people becoming more and more involved in politics
In 2017 56 e-petitions were debated in Parliament
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Pressure Groups
Insider: The CBI (Confederation of British Industry) works very closely with the Government to help achieve economic growth and prosperity.
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Pressure Groups
Stonewall campaigns for equality for Gay people - In 2014 Cameron legalised gay marriage.
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Pressure Groups
NSPCC - campaign against cruelty for children.
Age UK - represents pensioners.
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Rights Protection Cases
In 2012 the ECHR judgement prevented radical islamist Abu Qatada from being extradited to Jordan where he risked of being tortured and tried.
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Rights Protection Cases
Cait Reilly won her claim that it was unlawful to force for her to work for free at Poundland as a condition of her claiming her jobseeker's allowance.
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Rights Protection Cases
In 2017, the courts ruled that a school in Birmingham had been unlawfully segregating boys and girls. Ofsted argued that the school had breached the equality act of 2010.
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`Liberty PG
National Council for Civil Liberties
Aim to make sure that freedom and rights of individuals and communities are protected.
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Pressure Groups
Migration Watch UK provide the public with the numbers to do with immigration - making them more politically aware.
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Pressure Groups
Bernie Ecclestone donated £1 million to Labour before the 1997 election and this led to Labour seeking an exemption from the Company that he headed.
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FPTP
Safe seats - in 2017 Labour retained Liverpool Walton for 85.7% of the vote
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FPTP
Marginal seats - In 2017 SNP won the North East Fife by only 2 votes
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FPTP
In 2015 SNP won 1.4 million votes and gained 56 seats whereas UKIP had 3.8 million votes and gained 1 seat
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STV
In the 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had 3 candidates and Alliance had 2 candidates standing in the Belfast East constituency.
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AMS
In the 2021 Scottish Parliament elections SNP won 64 seats - 1 short of a majority.
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SV
Khan won with 55.2% of the vote after the 2nd preferences were redistributed and Bailey had 44.8% of the vote.
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SV
In Cambridgeshire in 2021 the Conservatives won the 1st preference round but when the 2nd preferences got distributed it switched to a Labour win.
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Participation Crisis +
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Party membership has fallen since the 1950s due to there being fewer party activists
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