Monday 28 March 2011

Should women be allowed to vote?

Note my question, that of the Lady of the Liberals, Polly Toynbee in the Guardian.

Also, this from the evil feminist gang at the Fawcett Society:

Historically, women have been more likely than men to vote Conservative and less likely than men to vote Labour. It is estimated that if women had not won the vote, there would have been a more-or-less continuous Labour government since 1945.

The gap in voting between women and men was at its widest in the 1950s and narrowed significantly in the 1980s. But by 1992, women were once again more likely to vote Conservative (support among women being respectively 44% and 34%) and many identified Labour’s failure to win over women voters as a decisive factor in their defeat.

A key part of Labour’s 1997 election strategy was focused on appealing to women. The strategy worked; the swing to Labour was 11% among women and 9% men. In 2001 women and men supported Labour in equal proportions, but women were still more likely than men to vote Conservative. By 2005 this had changed, with 32% of women voting Conservative, compared to 34% of men and 38% of women voting Labour, compared to 34% of men. If only women had voted in May 2005 Tony Blair’s majority in the House of Commons would be around 90, rather than the less comfortable 66 he won in reality. If only men had voted it would be a considerably more precarious 23.

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