secondry data on why people vote
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My secondary data: Politics is like a tennis match; except instead of a tennis ball you are playing with democracy of peoples rights. In this project I hope to prove with accurate and up to date facts that voters vote on first hand impressions of a politician before they hear the policies and that the media makes an impact on a voters choice of party or politician. I firstly did some background research on the electoral system and voting in the UK in the past recent years. I found from a sociology textbook that 'only two parties have a realistic chance of winning an election outright and therefore forming a government alone'. The book states that the British electorate are reluctant to give any help or support to any small parties. A table shows how the labour and conservatives have a dominant hold over the elections since 1979: Election Total seats won by labour...

