David Cameron and supporters at the 2014 Conservative Party conference
Voting behaviour used to be relatively simple. In the 1950s, turnout exceeded 80%, and the vast majority of working-class people voted Labour, while the vast majority of middle-class people voted Conservative. Since then, there has been a trend of class dealignment, whereby voting has become less dependent on class:
■ In the 1974 general election, 56% of middle-class voters chose the Conservatives, but only 39% did so in 2010.
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