elections + voting behaviour paper 1 Flashcards
what was the the media impact in 1979?
thatcher knew how to control media, sun switched from labour to conservative
how did people vote according to long term factors in 1979?
age- partisan dealignment in 18-25
class- c2 had class dealignment
how did people vote according to long term factors 1992?
class showed a traditional pattern (ab 56% cons, DE 49% labour)
age showed usual pattern when just looking at oldest and youngest but every age group except 18-25 showed a con majority
how did media have an effect in1992
major marketed as honest john
sun headline “if kinnock wins can the last person to leave britain turn out the lights’
media potentially caused people to change their minds which is why the opinion polls were so wrong
how did people vote according to long term factors in 1997?
class - becomes less important, follows some tradition
age - insignificant, partisan dealignment of over 65s as both under 25s and over 65s lab majority
what impact did the media have in 1997?
major was not well liked
sun changed support to labour
blair was well liked by the media
how did long term factors affect 2010
age - under 25s equally divided by big 3 but over 65s sticking to conservative values
class - still some traditional patterns in voting
how did media impact 2010
sun shifted from labour to conservative
journalists mocked coalition
tv debates
brown outdated
how did long term factors affect 2017?
both age and class continued traditional patterns, less dealignment
how did media impact 2017?
most newspapers back theresa may, hostile to jeremy corbyn
bbc criticised for being cons biased
twitter fake news
how did long term factors affect 2019?
class insignificant due to class dealignment
age significant as stuck to traditional patterns
region - collapse of red wall and rise of snp in scotland
how did media affect 2019
sun headline ‘if boris wins then bright future, if red jez gets in lights will go out for good’
media bias against labour reporting on anti semitism but not islamaphobia from cons
cons campaign on yt
who won the 1979 general election
conservatives, margaret thatcher, T.O - 76%
who won 1992 general election?
john major, conservatives, T.O 78%
who won 1997 general election?
tony blair, labour, T.O 71%
