Edexcel A-level Politics: Democracy and Participation Examples

2024 General Election: Turnout

59.8%, second lowest in recorded UK history

2024 General Election: Turnout incl. unregistered, eligible voters

50% (7-9 million eligible, unregistered voters)

2024 General Election: Labour vote share

33.7%, 20% of all registered voters

2024 General Election: Manchester Rusholme Turnout

40% (lowest in the country)

2024 General Election: Labour seats below national average turnout

75%

2024 General Election: Age turnout

71% >65, 37% 18-24

2024 General Election: Class turnout

59% of ABC1 voters, 45% of C2DE voters

2024 General Election: Ethnicity turnout

47% white, 43% ethnic

2024 General Election: Photo ID

3.2% turned away for no photo ID; over 850,000 unable to vote

2024 General Election: Ethnic Photo ID

6.5% turned away at least once vs 2.5% of white voters

Electoral Register Completeness

Only 88% complete, with up to 8 million eligible voters missing

Electoral Register Accuracy

Millions of entries inaccurate due to people being registered at multiple addresses (uni students, businessmen etc.)

2024 General Election: Reform UK

14.7% of the vote, only 5 seats

2024 General Election: Liberal Democrats

12.2% of the vote, 72 seats

2024 General Election: Green Party

7% of the vote, only 4 seats

2019 General Election: People represented by someone the voted for

55%

2024 BSA: Political trust

45% say they would ‘almost never’ trust a government o put the nation first

2024 BSA: Financial hardship

72% of those financially struggling ‘almost never’ trust politicians

2024 BSA: Demand for electoral reform

53% support changing the electoral system

2024 BSA: dissatisfaction with the system

79% believe Britain’s governing system needs major improvement

Political Activity (2024/25)

66% of adults did not take part in any civic or political activity

2019 PEA: Party Identification

34% strongly identified with a politicial party