Stats: Edexcel Politics 2. Elections and Voting Behaviour

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Question or Term	Answer	% Correct
The voting system used in elections to the House of Commons	First Past the Post	100%
The voting system used in elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly	Single Transferable Vote	100%
The voting system used in elections to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, and Greater London Assembly	Additional Member System	82%
A geographical area used to determine those people an elected representative represents, usually roughly equal in size	Constituency	71%
The number of constituencies in the UK	650	69%
a constituency that is highly unlikely to change hands during an election	Safe Seat	63%
The number of candidates generally put up for election per Northern Ireland Assembly constituency by each party	4	60%
A usually yes or no, and usually non-binding vote on a single issue or proposal	Referendum	60%
A government whose members and supporters do not constitute a majority of the legislature	Minority Government	55%
The voting system used in elections for the Mayor of London	Supplementary Vote	55%
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	54%
A person who tends to vote unpredictably in different elections, and is liable to change the way they vote fairly often	Floating/Swing Voter	46%
The percentage turnout in the 1997 General Election	71%	38%
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	Black Wednesday	36%
A trend where increasingly fewer people identify with a particular class and thus class has a decreasing impact on voting behaviour	Class Dealignment	33%
The body that oversees and regulates referendums and elections	Electoral Commission	33%
Any electoral system which produces a result broadly in line with the number of votes cast for a party	Proportional Representation	29%
A government whose members and supporters constitute a majority in the legislature	Majority Government	27%
A constituency where the results of past elections suggest the result of an election will be close	Marginal Seat	25%
Where the winner of an election only has to obtain more votes than any of their opponents rather than an absolute majority	Plurality	23%
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	22%
The percentage vote for UKIP in 2015	12.6%	20%
The general number of voters per UK constituency	75,000	20%
The headline in 'The Sun' in January 1979 which much damaged James Callaghan, though he did not actually say those exact words	Crisis? What crisis?	18%
The way in which people are classified based on occupation and to a lesser extent, income	Social Class	17%
The working class percentage swing to the Conservatives in 1979	10%	14%
The liberal idea that the government and how people are governed must have the peoples' consent	Government by Consent	14%
The majority of seats held by Labour after the 1997 General Election	179	13%
The expected result from polling for the 2015 General Election	Hung Parliament	13%
The percentage of the population accessing internet based news in 2013	50%	11%
The largest UK constituency, with 105,000 voters in 2015	Isle of Wight	11%
A form of candidate selection experimented with by the Conservative Party	Primaries	10%
An issue that is instrumental in determining how people will vote	Salient Issue	10%
The percentage swing from Labour to UKIP of the C2 and DE social classes in 2015	18%	9%
The percentage swing to the Conservatives in 1979	5%	9%
The majority of seats held by the Conservative Party after the 2015 General Election	4	8%
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	8%
Where the winner of an election receives more votes than all other candidates combined, i.e. at least 50%	Absolute Majority	7%
The percentage swing from the Conservatives in 1997	10%	6%
The percentage of voters Ipsos MORI estimate voted tactically in 2010	10%	0%
The majority of seats held by the Conservative Party after the 1992 General Election	10	0%
The number of votes wasted in the 2017 General Election according to the Electoral Reform Society	22 million	0%
The majority of seats held by Labour after the 1974 General Election	3	0%
The majority of seats held by the Conservative Party after the 1979 General Election	43	0%
The four social classifications in the UK from highest to lowest	AB, C1, C2, DE	0%
Those voters who will invariably support one of the main parties	Core Voters	0%
A person who does not vote the way one would expect given their social characteristics, especially their class	Deviant Voter	0%
A type of valence voting where people vote for a party based on their judgement of its' ability to manage the economy	Economic Voting	0%
A major political story published by the Daily Telegraph in 2009	Expenses Scandal	0%
A type of rational choice voting where people vote based on the benefit to society	Expressive/Altruistic Voting	0%
Where a petition from the citizenry, signed by a certain threshold of voters triggers a referendum	Initiative/Proposition	0%
A type of rational choice voting where people vote based on the benefit to themselves	Instrumental Voting	0%
The word which could best describe the Conservative and Labour manifestos of 1979	Moderate	0%
The smallest UK constituency, with 21,000 voters in 2015	Na h'Eileanan an Iar	0%
The formal name for First Past the Post	Plurality in Single Member Constituencies	0%
Where people vote for a party based on its position on one or many issues	Positional Voting	0%
A term used to describe the current and increasing difficulty in distinguishing between fact and fiction in news and politics	Post-Truth Era	0%
What can be divided into instrumental voting and expressive/altruistic voting?	Rational Choice Voting	0%
Where voters without a strong party allegiance vote rationally by analysing the strengths and weaknesses of each party	Rational Choice Voting	0%
A close link between class and party support	Voting Attachment	0%

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