... I expect to find that the political process has increasingly disenchant young people and that this change in young people's voting is due to the fact they cannot distinguish between the political parties? (212 words) Context 2001 seen the lowest voting turnout since war time Britain when only 59.1% of the population turned up to vote these caused great concern and when this figure only rose by a couple of percent in 2005. It is believed that nearly 25% of the population was refraining from voting in the general election and this figure increase in the local elections. A high number of these are the younger proportion of the population. This fact supports my hypothesis that age influence how people vote. There is also statistical evidence to support the claim that the younger generation are less likely to vote. The British election study in 2005 showed that only 34% of people aged 18-24 ...

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