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2017 General Election - Coggle Diagram
2017 General Election
Voting
Class - voting in the 2017 election didn’t reflect traditional class-based voting and there aren’t very clear patterns at all.
YouGov post-election poll , the Conservatives were ahead of Labour among ABs and C2s while Labour were ahead of the Conservatives among C1s and DEs
Conservative lead among ABs and a Labour on among DEs fits class-based voting expectations. Labour leading among C1s and Conservatives leading among C2s is unusual
One explanation for the C2 figure is because of Brexit. C2 voters were likely to back Leave and while former UKIP voters voted both Conservative and Labour, those who prioritised Brexit tended to vote Conservative.
Labour lead among C1s is that the higher level people were educated to, the more likely they were to vote Labour. Labour got nearly 50% of the vote of people who were educated to degree level or higher, compared with 33% of the vote of those who had not got any qualifications above GCSE level (55% of whom voted Conservative).
Gender - The YouGov poll that was used to determine class was also used to determine the link with gender. It found that women were equally as likely to vote Conservative and Labour, with men more likely to vote Conservative. This is interesting, as in 1979 and 1983, many more women voted Conservative due to them having a female leader.
Age - This was BY FAR the biggest voting pattern in this election. Simplified, it was younger people vote Labour, older people vote Conservative. 66% of 18-19 year olds voted Labour, with just 19% opting for Conservative. It is almost a mirror image for 70+ year olds, as 69% voted Conservative and 19% voted Labour. On average, the age where you are more likely to vote Conservative than Labour is 47.
Ethnicity - It is estimated that 65% of people of an ethnic minority voted Labour. The vast majority of seats lost by the Conservatives had a high BME population.
Region - For the most part, it followed expected lines. Other than Labour winning Kensington and Canterbury, and the Conservatives winning Mansfield, it was all pretty much as expected.
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Agreement with the DUP
Gavin Williamson, the chief whip of the Conservative Party, and Jeffrey Donaldson, chief whip of the DUP, signed an agreement to make a government after the Conservatives lost their majority in the election. They decided that Theresa May would lead a minority Conservative government, and they’d be supported legislatively by the DUP
The DUP would support them legislative one these topics:
-All motions of confidence
-The Queens Speech
-The budget
-Finance bills, money bills and appropriation legislation
-Legislation involving the UK's exit from the EU
-Legislation concerning national security