2010 election Flashcards
(5 cards)
1
Q
Turnout and results
A
- 65.1% turnout
Conservatives
* 307 seats, 36.1% of votes, 100 seat gain
Labour
* 258 seats, 29% of votes, -94 seats
Lib dems
* 57 seats, 23% of votes
2
Q
The hung parlliament
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- first ‘hung’ Parliament in the UK since February 1974.
- David Cameron, the Conservatives were largest party - winning 306 seats but fell 20 seats short of a Parliamentary majority.
- Five days after GE, Conservative-Lib Dem coalition was formed with Cameron becoming PM. First peacetime coalition government since the 1930s.
3
Q
Why brown lost
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- 2010 GE followed 2008 financial crisis which took place when Brown was PM. Gave the Tories a means to attack his policies and leadership.
- Brown was unpopular for not calling a GE when he took over as prime minister from Tony Blair in 2007.
- Voters didnt clearly favour the Conservatives over Labour, with polls suggesting 29% of voters felt that the Conservatives would be best for managing the economy compared to 26% for Labour.
4
Q
E-democracy
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- ‘cleggmania’ (10% LD poll jump overnight).
- Slogan - ‘i agree with nick’
- BBC - Brown called a lifetime lab voter gillian Duffy a ‘bigoted woman’
5
Q
cameron + issue voting
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- Camerons one nation, centrist views pushed a positive image
- civil liberties +climate change, “vote blue, get green”
