That's how every election goes down. How old are you, out of curiosity?
It seems this year will have the highest turnout ever. That can only be a good thing for labour.
27. Been as apathetic as possible to politics until the last two years or so.
There is so many interesting questions here.
Why was this your first time voting?
Why are you voting now?
Who did you vote for?
What do you know of the electoral system? Ho would you like it to be?
First time voting because I've never paid much attention before. My constituency has been a Labour seat going as far back as records started and it'll always be a Labour seat so I never really thought it matter that much before.
Corbyn seems alright to me, certainly one of very few politicians I can stand to listen to, he's a move away from a Blairite Labour and I believe he's had a rough deal in the media because he doesn't represent the 1%. I agree with some of the stuff he's put forward, certainly for us younger folk (albeit maybe at 27 I don't count as younger anymore) for the Labour party so that's part of the reason I voted for him but honestly, it's my huge dislike and distaste for Theresa May and the Tory party that got me out there voting. I don't want another 5 years of them and Labour have the only chance of defeating them.
I didn't know too much about the electoral system other than it's FPTP. And even though, I'm not truly sure what that means and whether it's better than proportional representation or not.
I'm not too sure what I expected. I knew there'd be a section for voting on your local MP but somehow I expected there to be the main section about which party you were voting for full stop to lead the country. Just a surprise that's all. I'd read about the local MP's and what they wanted to do so I was always going to vote the way I did but I suppose you never know what you can expect if you've never done it before.
As an aside, my first actual vote was in the referendum last year where I voted to remain.
As for how I'd like it to be, I'm not well versed enough to know which the best system is for our country. First past the post, proportional, etc. Would/will do more research on it all. I'm glad we still use paper and a pen/pencil so that technically they can't hack our votes, albeit they could just rub out the pencil and cross something else. I certainly wouldn't have online voting because that'd be so easy to corrupt but that would probably be how you get young people to vote more.