2024 Local elections Flashcards
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Describe the 2024 mayoral elections and the two-party dominance
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- 10/11 mayoralties controlled by Labour
- Con-Lab top 2 performers in 10/11 mayoral races
- Metropolitan areas - 63% landslide for Burnham in Greater Manchester
- entrenched by SV replacement - no ‘split ticket’
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Describe the turnout of the 2024 mayoral elections
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- Turnout generally declined
- Turnout down 6% in Liverpool City Region - dominance of Steve Rotherham (68% support)
- Turnout in London higher (40%) vs other regions (e.g. 27% in South Yorkshire) - greater powers onf London Mayor
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Describe Con-Lab voting support in the 2021 and 2024 mayoral elections after the SV-FPTP change
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- Evidence of change: London -75% for Lab-Con (2021 1st preference) vs 76.5% (2024)
- Evidence of continuity: West Midlands - 88% (2021 1st preference) vs 75% (2024)
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Describe the London Assembly elections
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- Turnout down 2%
- Lab won 11/25 seats - lack majority
- Reform UK won 1 seat due to ‘top up’
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Describe the turnout of PC&C elections 2024
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- Areas with coinciding mayoral election saw higher turnout e.g. Northumbria - 33%
- Areas without coinciding mayoral election saw lower turnouts e.g. Humberside - 19%
- Suggests uninformed voters - vote purely on party-alignment basis
Humberside - Hull and East Yorkshire - lack mayor
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Describe the significance of the 2024 local elections
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- LD recieved more council seats than Con - though recieved minimal media attention
- SDP, Women’s Equality, Worker’s Party, Reform UK all won council seats
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Describe the Blackpool South by-election
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- 26% Con-Lab swing
- Reform and Con roughly equal - split vote
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Describe the success of devolution in creating personalities (2024 mayoral elections)
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- Ben Houchen won in Tees Valley with 12% margin despite declining Conservative popularity
- Kim McGuiness beat Jamie Driscoll despite past prominence of Driscoll - loyalty to party, not individual
- Andy Street lost West Midlands mayoralty despite cross-party praise
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Describe the 2024 mayoral elections and evidence of a multi-party system
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- Successful independents - Jamie Driscoll won 28% support in NE
- Youth support - Akhmed Yakoob won 12% support in West Midlands
- 37.6% electorate voted for non Con/Lab in York and North Yorkshire
- 13 candidates in London (though down from 20 in 2021) - great voter choice
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Compare the budget of the London and NE mayor
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- London - £20.4bn
- NE - £6bn
