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Politics AS Level
Participation through the Ballot Box
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Approximately how many people live in a constituency? | 75,000-100,000 |
| When were major constituency boundary changes brought in? | 2010 |
| Give statistics of class voting | 2015 General Election C1- 41% Conservative, 29% Labour DE- 41% Labour, 26% Conservative |
| Give General Elections as evidence of class dealignment | 1979- Thatcher reached out to unemployed working class (Labour isn't working) 1997- Blair reached out to aspiring middle class with taxation policy |
| Give figures for Partisan Alignment | 1945 election- Labour and Conservative won almost 90% of the vote 2005- 13% of the electorate felt a strong support to one of the main parties |
| Give figures for gender as a voting factor | 2015- 38% men voted conservative, 37% of women |
| Give figures for age as a voting factor | 2015- 27% Conservative vote 18-25 y/o increases to 47% among the 65+ |
| Give figures for ethnicity as a voting factor | 2015- Labour vote share among minorities is 65% compared to 28% from white British - 6% of Black Africans, compared to 22% of Indian origin |
| Region as a voting factor figures | North-South divide. 31% of Northern voters voted Conservative, 12 points behind the rest of the UK |