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The Conservative Party is a member of a number of international organisations, most notably the International Democracy Union which unites right-wing parties including the United States Republican Party, the Liberal Party of Australia, the Conservative Party of Canada and the South Korean People Power Party.
Membership of political parties has been in decline in the UK since the 1950s, falling by over 65% from 1983 (4 per cent of the electorate) to 2005 (1.3 per cent). [1] In 2022, 1.5% of the British electorate were members of the Conservative Party, Labour Party, or the Liberal Democrats. [2]
A joint Politics and Economics series Social choice and electoral systems Social choice Mechanism design Comparative politics Comparison List (By country) Single-winner methods Single vote - plurality methods First preference plurality (FPP) Two-round (US: Jungle primary) Partisan primary Instant-runoff UK: Alternative vote (AV) US: Ranked-choice (RCV) Condorcet methods Condorcet-IRV Round ...
Swing in the United States can refer to swing states, those states that are known to shift an outcome between Democrats and Republican parties, equivalent on a local level to marginal seats. By contrast, a non-swing state is the direct equivalent of a safe seat as it rarely changes in outcome.
"Shy Tory factor" is a name given by British opinion polling companies to a phenomenon first observed by psephologists in the early 1990s. They observed that the share of the electoral vote won by the Conservative Party (known colloquially as the Tories) was significantly higher than the equivalent share in opinion polls. [1]
The Republican Party represents conservatives in the United States, with 74% of Republicans identifying as conservative, compared to only 12% of Democrats. [108] As of 2022, Republican leaning voters are more likely than Democrats to prioritize the issues of immigration, the budget deficit, and strengthening the military. [ 109 ]
The British republican presence continued in debates and the Labour press, especially in the event of royal weddings, jubilees and births, until well into the Interwar period. [21] Some prominent members of the nascent labour movement, such as Independent Labour Party leader Keir Hardie (1856–1915), also held republican views. [23]
British conservatism refers to a political and philosophical tradition in the United Kingdom that emphasizes the preservation of established institutions, [1] the rule of law, gradual societal change, traditionalism [2] British Unionism, [3] loyalism, euroscepticism, [4] a free market economy, [5] individualism [6] and a strong belief in personal responsibility.