• Womble@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Interestingly this seems to be a uniquely American phenomenon. In the recent UK general election there wasnt much of a gap between young men and women with a majority of both voting for the centre/centre-left (56% and 58% respectively), though there was a bit more of a diference outside that with the split between greens/far right being 12%:12% for young men and 23%:6% for young women.

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      1 month ago

      Well the centre left isn’t centre left. They went right of the conservatives on immigration, focussing on stopping migrant boats etc. They vowed not to raise taxes to fund services. They didn’t market themselves as centre-left. It was the right wing that took over the labour party. Historically you would find differences electorally prior to this one.

      If you look at men to women voting Reform, it’s 17% to 12%. There are disparities, they are just less obvious.