Sentences with phrase «more young people voting»

We need more young people voting and participating in their communities.

Still, they want to try, because achieving this might get more young people voting.

Natalie Bennett said there was a chance to see «politics literally break wide open» with a higher turnout and more younger people voting leading to a «whole new political landscape in Britain».

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Most recently, she sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss how she's turning her activism into action by launching a new initiative called Eighteen x» 18, which will encourage more young people to vote in the upcoming elections.

Record number people no longer believe, 8 years ago the young adults who could vote now couldn't then, and there are a lot more of them then those who believe.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

If non-voting young people «grow» into more regular voting habits later in life, do we need to be too concerned?

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

Young people are seen as more likely to vote Labour, so allowing them to vote will boost Labour's prospects in future elections.

Younger people are more likely to vote Labour than older people.

Ultimately therefore the decision to extend voting rights to younger people will depend on both whether Labour wins the next election and crucially whether the party sees it as advantageous to increase its vote share slightly at the expense of becoming more reliant on a coalition of disparate interests.

All of the above applies to the SGP Youths as well, but for the Youths I would expect the relatively high number of members to be even more pronounced as young adults raised in a religious family and community where > 20 % of the population vote for the SGP tend to have pretty clear views on their political and religious affiliation at a relatively young age, whereas other people tend to choose their political affiliations at a later age (if they ever choose one).

You will note that young people are much less likely to vote and historically this group is much more likely to vote Labour.

The sad fact is that the more young people disconnect from politics, the more we become neglected as the major parties prioritise the age groups who they might be able to claim a vote from.

«I think it can happen in two ways; either suddenly young people start voting again and then politicians will sit up and take notice and speak to them more directly, thinking about what they need, or; on their own volition politicians start going after the youth vote specifically trying to chase it.»

Presidential elections draw out more voters than off - year State Senate elections, and according to Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Fordham University, that translates to more minorities and young people, who tend to vote for Democrats.

Lancman and Avella said they will push legislation in Albany to reform the voting process, including allowing college students to be election inspectors even if they do not live in Queens, which is currently mandated, in order to get younger people who are more adept at technology working in elections.

The ConservativeHome blog speculates that the Tories could win an outright majority with just 37 % of the vote because the party is expected to do better in marginal seats and its supporters tend to be older people who are more likely to vote than the younger generation «who have flocked to Nick Clegg».

According to a YouGov survey more than half of young people who will be able to vote for the first time will not bother

There was also evidence that many more young people than usual were voting with many of them turning to the Liberal Democrats, ignoring pleas for them to vote tactically to keep the Tories out.

Most of these seats are very white, but nearly half have more younger people than old - although this includes 16 and 17 year olds who wouldn't be able to vote.

That's not to say that young voters were not still important in explaining the election result — age was still an important divide on how people voted, young people did still heavily vote for Labour so it is still fair to say Labour managed to enthuse young people more, it's just that the level of turnout among under 25s does not appear to have risen; Labour just took a greater share of support among younger voters.

After the vote, Ms Williams said: «I look forward to working with the first minister, with cabinet colleagues, and with other progressives to reduce class sizes, deliver more nurses, be ambitious in our approach to housing, ending mental health discrimination, and supporting teachers and our young people to achieve the highest standards.»