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In Terms Of Voting Behaviour Since The Seventies Analyse The Contention That Britain Has Moved From Having An ‘Aligned’ Electorate To One That Is Now ‘Unaligned’
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In Terms Of Voting Behaviour Since The Seventies Analyse The Contention That Britain Has Moved From Having An 'Aligned' Electorate To One That Is Now 'Unaligned' In political terms, alignment is used to describe members of the electorate who identify themselves with a particular political view or party. Dealignment is the process of making whereby the electorate become unaligned. In an aligned electorate everyone would vote for a particular party because a social or economic group they belong to. In an unaligned electorate this would have no bearing on who they vote for whatsoever. In the post war years of British politics it was seen that Britain had a very aligned electorate. Many people had clear identification with a political party and would only ever vote for a candidate of that party. This was particularly evident in the 1950's and 60's when 90% of voters were willing to state which party they...
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