Evaluate the factors that influenced the result of the 2010 UK general Election. For the purpose of this essay‚ I will be evaluating the factors that influenced the result of the 2010 UK general election. The general election was held on Thursday 6th May 2010 and was the first election since 1974 to result in a hung parliament‚ as no party achieved the 326 seats needed to for an overall majority. The three main parties were the Conservatives‚ whose party leader was and still is David Cameron
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Electoral Process: Does Majority Actually Rule? Imagine an election won by the loser; an election where the person that received less votes than their opponent won. Barbara Boxer said: Voting is the cornerstone of democracy. We have had men and women through the decades die for the right to vote. Many generations of Americans of every gender‚ race‚ religion‚ and ideology have marched and struggled and died to secure this fundamental freedom. Yet we have a system where the winner can lose (qtd. in
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Increasing young voter turnout is becoming a predominant challenge during election season‚ with many young people deciding to stay home on election day. A huge percent of young people do not feel the need to turn out for these important elections‚ leaving their candidates floundering for support‚ resulting in an issue. The United States of America is a democracy‚ and the young voters are a large part of our population. Without their input‚ The United States will not be a fairly represented nation
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elect presidents. There is some that believe that we should elect the president based on popular vote‚ and then there’s others that believe in the way we go about it currently‚ which is based off the idea of an electoral college. “The only comparable election process has to do with the way the pope is elected. The church wanted more input and wanted less input from the people and the state. So in 1059‚ the church changed the way the process goes. The new process has the Cardinals cast a vote. They have
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Over the course of history since the America revolution the united states has adopted a system of voting called FTTP (Or first past the post). it is a winner takes all system with the primary goal of winning the most electoral votes. In the United States the system generalizes politics into two major parties Republican and democratic. if the united states were to adopt a proportional representation system it would benefit the country by giving a more accurate representation of voter demographic‚
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Electoral College Reform Five times in our nation’s history‚ the Electoral College has failed and elected a president that was not the majority vote from the election. The two most recent cases were the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore and the 2016 election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. During elections‚ there is always a good turnout because people are excited to vote for the next president of the United States‚ but what they do not know is that they do not directly
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Should The Electoral College Be Abolished? In the year 1787‚ the new nation of the United States set up an electoral system in order to ensure that the federal elections that would soon be taking place in the young country would go over smoothly… This system was the Electoral College… If this system sounds familiar‚ it’s because the Electoral College is still in service today‚ currently acting as the system which selects the American President and Vice President‚ or to be more broad‚ the Executive
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more apathetic. In the 2016 election‚“60% of the voting eligible population”(McDonald‚ 2016)‚ actually cast a ballot and voted. In an election that can drastically alter the future of America‚ as well as world relations‚ only 60% of eligible voters decided the outcome. Political apathy is created by the feeling of powerlessness and indifference. In 2013‚ supreme court ruling put into act Voter ID laws‚ that were active in 33 states‚ including Wisconsin‚ during the 2016 elections. In Wisconsin alone
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and Iowa ect. have a higher amount of electoral votes. For example‚ California has 55 electoral votes and Utah has 6 and New York has 29 votes and Idaho has 4. This allows New York and California to easily sway the election while Utah and Idaho can’t even make a dent in the election. Because states like New York and California have a high amount of electoral votes candidates are going to work hard to gain those states and ignore the smaller states like Idaho who don’t have as many votes. This
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as a more direct election. However most people do not understand that the Electoral College system is generated through the voted candidates of the Senate and House of Representatives through the bigger and smaller cities making it equal for battleground states to get have equal say in the general election. The Electoral was created by the founding fathers placed into the Constitution to compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the President
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