{"id":17389,"date":"2015-05-23T11:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T10:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17389"},"modified":"2015-05-23T11:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T10:17:54","slug":"so-who-actually-voted-for-whom-in-the-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17389","title":{"rendered":"So who actually voted for whom in the General Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2015\/may\/22\/election-2015-who-voted-for-whom-labour-conservatives-turnout\">an analytical piece<\/a>, Alberto Nardelli states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The general election result can be summarised in a nutshell: the Conservatives did well with voters that turn out. Labour did well with voters who don\u2019t vote.<\/p>\n<p>More than eight in 10 of those who had supported Cameron\u2019s party five years ago did so again in this election, according to estimates calculated by Ipsos Mori.<\/p>\n<p>But even more crucially to the election\u2019s outcome, the Conservatives were not only best at holding on to their 2010 voters, they were also the most successful party among those groups with high turnout.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no simple answer to Labour&#8217;s dilemma. Nardelli writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Labour only had a clear lead over the Conservatives among 18- to 34-year-olds, voters in social class DE (the \u201csemi-skilled and unskilled manual occupations, unemployed and lowest grade occupations\u201d), among private and social renters, and black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) voters.<\/p>\n<p>But among all these groups, turnout was lower than the overall level of voter turnout (66%).<\/p>\n<p>To make matters even worse for Labour, the party\u2019s vote share actually fell among those aged 65 or above. Within this age group, Miliband\u2019s party won 23% of the vote \u2013 down eight points on 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Ed Miliband\u2019s party held on to 72% of those who said they voted Labour in 2010. The party lost votes in relatively equal numbers to the Conservatives (8%), Ukip (6%), the Lib Dems, SNP and the Greens (all 5%).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an analytical piece, Alberto Nardelli states: &#8220;The general election result can be summarised in a nutshell: the Conservatives did well with voters that turn out. Labour did well with voters who don\u2019t vote. More than eight in 10 of those who had supported Cameron\u2019s party five years ago did so again in this election, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17392,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions\/17392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}