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Edexcel Politics 2. Elections and Voting Behaviour

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A form of candidate selection experimented with by the Conservative Party
Primaries
The majority of seats held by the Conservative Party after the 2015 General Election
4
What can be divided into instrumental voting and expressive/altruistic voting?
Rational Choice Voting
The four social classifications in the UK from highest to lowest
AB, C1, C2, DE
Where voters who used to be strongly attached to a party and always voted for it, detach themselves from that relationship in ever greater numbers
Partisan Dealignment
The percentage turnout in the 1997 General Election
71%
Where people with similar views vote for a party based on their overall judgement of its' and its rival's governing competence
Valence/Competence Voting
a constituency that is highly unlikely to change hands during an election
Safe Seat
The percentage of voters Ipsos MORI estimate voted tactically in 2010
10%
A close link between class and party support
Voting Attachment
The smallest UK constituency, with 21,000 voters in 2015
Na h'Eileanan an Iar
The percentage swing from Labour to UKIP of the C2 and DE social classes in 2015
18%
The majority of seats held by the Conservative Party after the 1979 General Election
43
A geographical area used to determine those people an elected representative represents, usually roughly equal in size
Constituency
The body that oversees and regulates referendums and elections
Electoral Commission
The winter of 1978-79 during which large-scale strike action was taken, against a backdrop of high inflation, unemployment, and falling growth, seeing polls change from a 5% Labour lead in November 1978 to a 20% Conservative lead by February 1979
Winter of Discontent
The expected result from polling for the 2015 General Election
Hung Parliament
The way in which people are classified based on occupation and to a lesser extent, income
Social Class
A term used to describe the current and increasing difficulty in distinguishing between fact and fiction in news and politics
Post-Truth Era
A type of rational choice voting where people vote based on the benefit to themselves
Instrumental Voting
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