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(5) Voting behaviour - long
term factors and voting
- Social class
- Class voting - A link
between voting and class
- E.G 64-66, 64% of working
class voted Labour
- 62% of Middle class
voted Conservatives
- 1966 66% of voters
voted there "natural class"
- By 1979, just 51% would
vote with there "natural party"
- 1987 - 44% "natural party"
- 2010 - 38% "natural party"
- Party loyalty
- Party alignment - strong identification
with a particular party 1964-70
- 1954-66 90% of voter had
identified with a party
- Since 1970's decline, by 2005 a
mere 10% - 9% voted Labour Tory
- Gender
- Women vote Conservatives.
Less pronounced under
Thatcher, better under Major
- The New Labour under Blair created
an equal voter turn out with 44%
- The trend continued
in 2001 and 2005
- 2010 more men aged
18-34 voted Tory
- Women voters aged 55 or above were
more likely to vote Tory (44% to 30%
- Age
- Likely to vote
Tory with age
- Better-off keep wealth
or fearful of change
- Likely to vote Labour
among younger voters
- 2005 suffeared as Lib Dem's
more votes with the 18-25
- 2010 - older women
likely to vote Tory
- Religion and ethnicity
- Tory have a 9% lead
over Labour with CofE
- Protestant non-conformists, Methodists and
to a lesser extent Catholics, voted Labour
- Black voter more likely
to vote Labour by 67%
- Asian voter more likely
vote Labour by 58%
- Iraq War causted Asian's to
vote Lib Dems in 2005 and 2010
- Region
- North-South divide in 1980's
- Labour held seat almosted exclusively in the
North and Conservative in the South respectively
- Scotland and Wales at a
time had no Tory seats
- Labour made significant progress
in the South in 1997 and 2001
- Conservative gains in 2005 were
made almost exclusively in the South
- Lib Dem's strong support
in the "Celt fringe"
- This support is reflect in class factors and Pro-Labour support in
urban areas and Pro-Conservatives support in rural areas