Tactical and protest voting

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A Levels (Participation and Voting behaviour) Government and Politics Mapa Mental sobre Tactical and protest voting, creado por dottydiva96 el 03/01/2014.
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Tactical and protest voting
  1. Tactical voting - where an individual chooses to vote for a candidate that is not their preferred candidate to top the candidate they least prefer from winning
    1. Protest voting - where voters back a candidate/party other than their normal choice in order to send a message to their 'natural' party or to the government
      1. Often occurs in elections where the outcome is less crucial to the voter (e.g. local elections)
      2. Swing - a measurement of the movement of votes from one party to another, between one election and the next.
        1. Expressed as a %
          1. 2010 - 4.9% swing from Labour to Conservative
          2. Differential swing - different rates of swing in different parts of the country
            1. Churn - where large numbers of voters switch their support between parties, between elections, while the headlines statistics remain the sasme
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