I'm slowly coming to the realisation that when it comes to this election no one really knows what's going on. Just looking at my seat - 6 candidates, 3 of whom are essentially anti-Labour candidates. Meaning that the anti-Labour vote could be split three ways, helping Labour retain the seat. If it's like this in other constituencies then it's going to be very hard to predict the outcome. Very difficult for people to know who to vote for, and perhaps increasingly likely that we won't get an outcome reflecting the Brexit vote. This is a big worry.
Also, I've been watching the number of voters registering.
https://www.gov.uk/performance/register-to-vote/registrations-breakdown
In 2017 around 2.8 million people registered in the month or so leading up to the vote. A massive 622,000 on the final day alone. Something which massively worked in Corbyn's favour owing to the fact that the majority were younger voters.
It'll be interesting to see if we have a similar spike this time round. It could be a huge factor.
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