very interesting, thank you for posting. Is there a demographic factor as well here that blue wall seats have an average age and age spread similar to traditional Conservative seats? The received wisdom is that older, asset owning voters tend to vote Conservative. So if the seats have higher than national average private home ownership, do they have a more aged population?
very interesting, thank you for posting. Is there a demographic factor as well here that blue wall seats have an average age and age spread similar to traditional Conservative seats? The received wisdom is that older, asset owning voters tend to vote Conservative. So if the seats have higher than national average private home ownership, do they have a more aged population?
The “Blue Wall/Red Wall/insert preferred name here” seats are quite middle aged, older than most Labour seats but younger than existing Tory ones.
The big standouts are the home ownership rate and the car dependence.