Edexcel Politics 2. Elections and Voting Behaviour

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The word which could best describe the Conservative and Labour manifestos of 1979

The headline in 'The Sun' in January 1979 which much damaged James Callaghan, though he did not actually say those exact words

A close link between class and party support

The number of candidates generally put up for election per Northern Ireland Assembly constituency by each party

The voting system used in elections to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, and Greater London Assembly

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

Where the winner of an election receives more votes than all other candidates combined, i.e. at least 50%

A person who does not vote the way one would expect given their social characteristics, especially their class

A term used to describe the current and increasing difficulty in distinguishing between fact and fiction in news and politics

The voting system used in elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly

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The percentage turnout in the 1997 General Election

16th September 1992, when Major's government was forced to withdraw from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after a fall in the value of the pound against European currencies causing a huge financial loss and national humiliation

Where a petition from the citizenry, signed by a certain threshold of voters triggers a referendum

A type of valence voting where people vote for a party based on their judgement of its' ability to manage the economy

Those voters who will invariably support one of the main parties

The four social classifications in the UK from highest to lowest

The number of constituencies in the UK

The largest UK constituency, with 105,000 voters in 2015

The majority of seats held by the Conservative Party after the 2015 General Election

A form of candidate selection experimented with by the Conservative Party