Factors Influencing Voting Behaviour
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- Created on: 25-05-22 16:02
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- Factors Influencing Voting Behaviour
- Recency Factors
- Global Situations
- Recession was likely a factor in voting Gordon Brown out in 2010
- Personal Circumstances
- Rational choice theory- voters vote for the party they think will do the best for them in their circumstances
- Centrism
- Many view all the major parties as the same perhaps due to a drift to the centre to appeal to more voters
- Economics
- If the economy is struggling, people will vote for the party that they feel is the best at handling the economy
- Brexit
- Global Situations
- Voting Tactics
- Protest Voting
- People withdrew their support from Labour due to the governments decisions around the Iraq War in the 2005 general election
- Tactical Voting
- People may vote against the candidate they most dislike rather than for the candidate they actually like
- Single Issue Voting
- Brexit
- Iraq War
- Protest Voting
- Media Influence
- Media Exposure
- People tend only to expose themselves to media they agree with so how influential a factor this is is up for debate
- Celebrities
- Russel Brand urged people to vote Labour in the 2015 General Election
- Polls and Exit Polls
- Give a good indication of voter intention and can also be used to gauge general feeling about government
- Party Leadership
- People said they wouldn't trust Jeremy Corbyn to run the corner shop
- Gordon Brown caught calling someone a 'bigoted' woman
- Media Exposure
- Primacy Factors
- Ethnicity
- BME people more likely to vote Labour due to more liberal stance on immigration
- Region
- Traditionally working class areas such as Wales vote Labour
- Age
- Young people vote Labour, Older people vote Conservative, older people more likely to vote than younger people
- Social Class
- Working class vote Labour, middle/upper class vote Conservative
- Ethnicity
- Recency Factors
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