Sentences with phrase «young voted labour»

There was also an age divide, the young voted Labour and the old Conservative.

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Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.

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.

Context Using the General Election 2017 as an example, YouGov believe that Young people voted for Labour whereas the older generation voted for The Conservative party.

The polling companies showing the worst results for Labour are presuming young people will vote at roughly the same rate as in the last election.

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

According to Professor Sir John Curtice Labour's vote was up on average by as much as 11 points in wards where more than 35 per cent of voters are aged between 18 and 34, and up by just 4 per cent where the proportion of younger voters is less than 20 per cent.

Much of his success will depend on how many young people who say they will vote Labour actually turn up and do so.

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

Using the General Election 2017 as an example, YouGov believe that Young people voted for Labour whereas the older generation voted for The Conservative party.

However, the Labour candidate's support was largely made up of younger voters, while Goldsmith retains a commanding lead with older voting groups which have historically been more likely to get to the ballot box.

An 11th - hour plea to the Labour leadership by the Tory chief whip Sir George Young, who warned that the government was in danger of losing the vote, prompted a change of heart by Miliband, who had been planning to abstain on the amendment.

This may fuel concerns that Labour's young vote is mostly concentrated in existing safe Labour seats.

Mhairi Black, who becomes the UK's youngest MP at the age of 20, overturned former shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander's majority of 16,600 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to win by 5,684 votes - a swing of 27 % from Labour to the SNP.

In short, the sort of young people who took part in polls went out and voted Labour; the sort of young people who weren't interested and stayed at home didn't take part in polls either.

Tory Giles Watling received 8,709 votes to finish second while Labour's Tim Young finished third with 3,957 votes.

Alternatively, a Corbyn victory could position the party to harness and direct support from a new, young radical constituency (much of which either didn't vote or didn't vote Labour in the election).

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With the Tories increasingly focused on chasing the grey vote, the question facing Labour is whether it is prepared to speak up for the young.

There is again an indication that younger women were more likely to vote Labour, although the overlapping confidence intervals mean we can not be sure of the magnitude and significance of a difference.

In a July post on the Labour List site, he attributed Corbyn's unexpected support to around 80,000 young and idealistic full party members who have joined since April, as well as another 20,000 registered supporters who have paid their # 3 fee for the right to vote.

June's election saw young people turning out to vote in record numbers, with 60 % 18 - 24 year olds having voted Labour in June, whilst 61 % of over 64s voted Conservative.

The London Young Labour executive committee voted in favour of a motion that also resolved to call on Labour chiefs to publish their report into selection of the parliamentary candidate in Falkirk.

Corbyn's popularity among the under - 35s is of little use here - even if Labour got a significant young vote in most of these seats, with Corbynmania in full flow, it still wouldn't come close to outweighing older voters.

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Backed up by polling showing Labour streaking ahead in London, it's easy to see the basis of this trend, even if certain seat - specific results look odd - lots of ethnic minority voters, lots of young voters and students, lots of young professionals, and lots of angry Remainers make for lots of Labour votes.

The new registers, forcing every individual to sign up, mean losing millions of voters — mostly young, mobile or poor, the sort who might vote Labour.

The only reason the government refuses to modernise the voting system, so that everyone can vote online (as they did for the Tory selection of a London mayoral candidate) is fear that too many of the young / non-voters might vote for the first time, and vote Labour.

He wrote: «Jeremy Corbyn and Labour won the arguments in the campaign and could be on the verge of unexpected power on the back of a surge in voting by young people if Labour was able to do deals in Parliament with the SNP, Liberals, a solitary Green, Plaid Cymru and some of Northern Ireland's MPs.»

Many Conservative MPs plan to vote tactically to try to stop Bercow, while, if the Labour vote splits between the two candidates, a rival such as Tory grandee Sir George Young could be boosted.

But Labour outperformed even that achievement as a unique alliance of enthused younger voters and previous non-voters combined with older austerity - hit, anti-establishment Ukippers to deliver a 10 - point rise in Labour's vote compared with two years ago, to 40 %.

Yvette Cooper, Labour's former shadow home secretary, who spoke at the event to encourage more young voters to register before the new extended deadline, said Corbyn would not privately vote leave.

Lord Ashcroft's much smaller exit poll puts support for Labour among young people even higher, with 67 % of 18 to 24 year olds voting Labour and 18 % voting Conservative.

[12] Electoral Commission sources estimated as many as 10 million voters could disappear from the electoral roll under government plans, predominantly poor, young or black, and more liable to vote Labour.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the Tories were performing relatively well in areas with a substantial Leave vote in the 2016 referendum, where they are picking up votes from UKIP, which did not stand candidates in many areas, while Labour were performing better in places where the Remain vote was stronger and with a higher proportion of younger voters.

The Labour surge in Leeds NE was probably due to remain voting folk in areas like Roundhay, and the large number of young professionals in Chapel Allerton going for Labour.

The Labour leader, who had planned to abstain in a Commons vote on the amendment, agreed to change tack after the government chief whip Sir George Young sent a message to his opposition counterparts that the Tory leadership was facing defeat.

Whelan, Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s and part of the media campaign behind Labour's 1997 victory, said union power had undoubtedly swung the vote for the younger Miliband brother.

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.

Gordon Brown, whose youngest son suffers from cystic fibrosis, one of the conditions which scientists hope may be treated as a result of the research, launched a passionate defence of the Bill, on which Labour MPs have a free vote.