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Accounts for the changes in voting behaviour in the last 30 years in UK general elections
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Marc Murray Accounts for the changes in voting behaviour in the last 30 years in UK general elections This essay will look at the events and reasons that can be held accountable for the changes in voting behaviour within the UK general elections during the past 30 years. To be able to understand the changes in voting behaviour this paper will examine events that have taken place over the last third of a century, from the post-war period (1945-70) in which the British political system consisted of support for the two major parties and voting behaviour was easy to explain with individual identifying with one of these parties through tradition and social class. This essay will concentrate on these two major parties and provide evidence to show how during this period the two-party vote was the accepted norm, to the latter part of this period as changes in the class system...
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