Discuss the range of social and other factors which influence voting behaviour.

Many factors are said to influence voting behaviour, however in many areas the extent to which this is true is unclear.  This essay will compare and contrast the spectrum of social as well as other factors which influence voting behaviour.

Possibly the most commonly thought factor which influences voting behaviour is class.  In the past most political scientists would have agreed with the notion that working class (manual workers) people were more likely to vote Labour and that middle class (non-manual workers) people were more likely to vote Conservative and, up until the late 1970s there appeared to be statistical evidence of people voting for their traditional class part…(short extract)

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