![]() A typical national survey has about 1,000 respondents. The typology was created using more than 10,000 survey interviews over an 11-day period this past July. Politics Most Americans trust elections are fair, but sharp divides exist, a new poll finds ![]() The strongest Republican groups more so than the strongest Democratic ones think next year's midterms "really matter." But where Republicans have an advantage is having more of a sense of urgency about who is in charge in Washington. While there has been much focus on Democratic divisions between progressive and moderate wings in Congress, the study finds there are more divisions among Republican groups on the issues. There are also clear implications for control of Congress. In fact, the study finds that the three groups with the most self-identified independents "have very little in common politically." ![]() What's more, despite surveys having found broad support for a third party outside the two major ones, the study shows that there's no magic middle. There are also decidedly different views on the role of government overall, economic policy, immigration, religion, the United States' standing in the world and - for Republican-leaning groups - former President Donald Trump. You can find out more about the situation where you live by entering your constituency in the widget below.īut we hope you'll share this quiz with your friends as an entertaining, educational way to prepare for polling day.Clear lines emerge when it comes to race, inequality and what the government should do about it. There's also their leadership, for example, their chance of winning in your seat or 'tactical voting', or how strongly you feel about perhaps one or two key issues that can override all the others. Think of this quiz more as a light-hearted game to analyse which policies match up to which party the most.Įven with 27 questions it's only a snapshot, and there's a lot more to political parties than what's in their manifestos. But you can read summaries of the Plaid and SNP manifestos below to learn more. We realise that means it's not perfect, and is aimed mostly at voters in England. Unfortunately we couldn't include Plaid Cymru or the SNP, because the nationalist parties create too much of an unknown quantity in a nationwide quiz where not all the parties are available to everyone. We worked backwards by analysing the 2019 general election manifestos of Labour, the Conservatives, the Lib Dems, the Green Party and the Brexit Party. The quiz should be embedded in this story, below this line of text. Who knows? You might find out something new about yourself. Just take yourself through 27 questions picking your favourite policies to find out which party they most resemble. We've build a bumper personality quiz that will suggest, as a rough approximation, how you should vote in the general election, We on the Mirror Politics team have had to sift through them all - and compare where the big parties stand on not just the key issues of the day, but the detailed ideas that'd affect you. The problem is that manifestos run to scores of pages long, and you'd have to be pretty obsessed to read them all. Or - and there's nothing wrong with this either - you just won't know who to vote for at all.Įither way, if you're stuck, floating or just want to know more about your party, you can't start at a better place than the manifesto policies. There's not necessarily anything wrong with this, of course. Instead, perhaps you'll be going on your gut instinct. Most of us have seen enough of politics over the last few years to have pretty strong feelings about who to back in the general election tomorrow.īut sometimes that means when you walk into that polling station, you might not actually know everything your party stands for. Do you know who to vote for? No, seriously - do you really know who to vote for?
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