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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:45 PM Oct 2019

December 12th vote...hmmm...first vote on Brexit low turnout...hmmm

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December 12th vote...hmmm...first vote on Brexit low turnout...hmmm (Original Post) pbmus Oct 2019 OP

This could go anyway... Soph0571 Oct 2019 #1

I did hear that the first vote was pretty low turnout... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #2

I've been informed that votes scheduled for winter time in the UK get far lower turnout, abqtommy Oct 2019 #3

That's been our problem for years... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #4

There's been 1 'winter' election since the mass ownership of cars, in Feb 1974 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2019 #8

If you mean the turnout in the referendum, then, no, it was quite high muriel_volestrangler Oct 2019 #6

I stand corrected... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #9

The election will not be about Brexit, although if the Torries win they will certainly claim it was. StevieM Oct 2019 #5

What does "first vote on Brexit low turnout" mean? muriel_volestrangler Oct 2019 #7

Jeremy Corbyn's biggest problem is a lot of old Labour areas voted for brexit Otto Lidenbrock Oct 2019 #10

Honestly, Corbyn is the worst Labor leader in my memory. Blue_true Oct 2019 #11

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)

1. This could go anyway...

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:51 PM

Oct 2019

Interesting times!

Wounded Bear

(58,728 posts)

2. I did hear that the first vote was pretty low turnout...

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 05:52 PM

Oct 2019

will the British people show up this time?

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

3. I've been informed that votes scheduled for winter time in the UK get far lower turnout,

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 06:05 PM

Oct 2019

especially among older people. If the Brits don't get out and vote then, like some voters in the US,
they deserve the government they get by default.

Wounded Bear

(58,728 posts)

4. That's been our problem for years...

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 06:08 PM

Oct 2019

Trump was "elected" on low turnout.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,385 posts)

8. There's been 1 'winter' election since the mass ownership of cars, in Feb 1974

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 06:28 PM

Oct 2019

and that had a higher turnout than the elections before and after it - see the graph at the first link in reply #6.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,385 posts)

6. If you mean the turnout in the referendum, then, no, it was quite high

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 06:24 PM

Oct 2019

http://www.ukpolitical.info/Turnout45.htm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/eu_referendum/results

2001 GE: 59.4%
2005 GE: 61.4%
2010 GE: 65.3%
2015 GE: 66.1%
2016 Brexit referendum: 72.4%
2017 GE: 68.7%

20th century turnouts were higher.

Wounded Bear

(58,728 posts)

9. I stand corrected...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #6)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 06:58 PM

Oct 2019

StevieM

(10,500 posts)

5. The election will not be about Brexit, although if the Torries win they will certainly claim it was.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 06:09 PM

Oct 2019

The election will be about all the issues, and all the candidates.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,385 posts)

7. What does "first vote on Brexit low turnout" mean?

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 06:26 PM

Oct 2019

Are you saying you predict this GE vote is "the first since a definite Brexit agreement existed" and it will be low? For past figures, see reply #6.

Otto Lidenbrock

(581 posts)

10. Jeremy Corbyn's biggest problem is a lot of old Labour areas voted for brexit

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 07:31 PM

Oct 2019

If he tries to make the GE about social issues and governing on bread and butter politics he could pull it off. But he is unlikely to do that because brexit is the big topic that will dominate the campaign.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

11. Honestly, Corbyn is the worst Labor leader in my memory.

Reply to Otto Lidenbrock (Reply #10)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 08:32 PM

Oct 2019

People criticize Blair for his decisions on war, but other than that, he had to Torries by the shorthairs.

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