LSE British Politics and Policy blog:
Who swung GE2017: young voters turning out, or older voters not?
11 June 2017
Article by Thiemo Fetzer
That the Labour party got 40% of the vote – against all odds – is being attributed to a higher turnout among young voters. Thiemo Fetzer‘s analysis finds that older voters did not turn up to vote, relative to younger voters. He also finds that in many places, the older vote was split between the two main parties, possibly due to the controversial social care provisions in the Conservative manifesto.