Edexcel Politics 2. Elections and Voting Behaviour

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The percentage of the population accessing internet based news in 2013

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

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

A major political story published by the Daily Telegraph in 2009

A trend where increasingly fewer people identify with a particular class and thus class has a decreasing impact on voting behaviour

A constituency where the results of past elections suggest the result of an election will be close

The voting system used in elections for the Mayor of London

The number of votes wasted in the 2017 General Election according to the Electoral Reform Society

The majority of seats held by Labour after the 1974 General Election

A usually yes or no, and usually non-binding vote on a single issue or proposal

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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

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

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

Those voters who will invariably support one of the main parties

The voting system used in elections to the House of Commons

The percentage vote for UKIP in 2015

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

The percentage turnout in the 1997 General Election

Any electoral system which produces a result broadly in line with the number of votes cast for a party

The majority of seats held by Labour after the 1997 General Election