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The Liberal Democrats win twice the amount of seats as the Conservatives and over three times as many as Labour with a massive 50.7% of the seats across the country.
The results of the 2010 Y
Vote Mock Election and Google School Elections involving over 250,000 young
people are now in and they show that young people support the Liberal Democrats
as the party that they believe should be in Government. Students gave the Liberal Democrats a narrow
majority over the other parties - 50.7% of the seats in constituencies where
Mock Elections were held. The
Conservative Party achieved 24.9% of the vote and Labour came in third, being
elected in only 15.9% of seats. This of
course differs wildly from the real general election result, in which Labour
achieved 39% of the vote.
Smaller parties achieved 8% of seats collectively, doing much better than smaller parties in the General Election, where they achieved 4% of seats.
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Significant new measures needed if improvements in
women's representation in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are to be
sustained
A report
commissioned by the British Council and produced by the Hansard Society, concludes
that the battle for fair and equal representation of women is far from won and
urgent new action is needed if the progress made in Edinburgh and Cardiff over
the last decade is to be sustained in the next one. Has
Devolution Delivered for Women? , written by Joyce McMillan and
Ruth Fox, explores the progress that has been made in improving the levels of
female representation in the devolved legislatures over the last 10 years,
analyses how this happened and what obstacles now threaten that progress. It
explores the impact that women have had on the culture of politics in Scotland
and Wales and the policy commitments that have been secured as a result of
their leadership.
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Young people do
not rate the same issues as important at
election time
HeadsUp.org.uk,
the innovative online forum for 11-18 year olds, has found that young people
care about significantly different issues from adults when it comes to
politics. The latest online forum, which ran throughout the general election (report
available to download here), found that although young people and adults
agree that the economy is important, they disagree on their priorities for
other political issues.
Read the full report here
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After weeks of election campaigning, hustings, opinion polls and debate, Harrogate Grammar School's Mock Election is won by Tom Spain in a landslide victory for the ‘Tomunist Alliance' party.
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Briefing Paper from the Hansard Society and the Political Studies Association
What's Trust Got To Do With It?
On the day leading politicians go head to head on the BBC to debate trust in politics, a new Briefing Paper, What's Trust Got To Do With It?, argues that public dissatisfaction with politics is based on deeper problems than lack of trust in MPs and Parliament. The Paper identifies the more urgent challenge as being the decline in the relevance of politicians and political institutions to people's everyday lives.
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After weeks of election campaigning, hustings, opinion polls and political discussion, over 400 schools and nearly 20,000 young people will finally get their long-awaited chance to vote in the Hansard Society's Y-Vote Mock Elections on Thursday May 6. Many schools in your area are eager to show off their activities to journalists on Thursday.