How Does Social Class Affect Voting Behaviour

“Social Class no longer has any impact on voting behaviour”

I agree with this statement up to a certain extent, as there are many very influential factors which may impact upon someone’s voting behaviour. Social class is not the deciding factor in many cases nowadays; people are more likely to decide according to other key issues for example policies.

I disagree with this strongly as people are much more likely to decide according to someone’s policies, as someone who may come from an upper class background could have completely useless policies, while someone from a lower social class may have much better political ideas and policies; or vice versa. In this particular case someone would be much more likely to look past the person’s class and pay more attention to what they are actually trying to say, showing the irrelevance of social class upon the voting behaviour.

Yet for some people social class still influences their voting behaviour, as they may feel that someone who is from a higher class than then would be stuck up and possibly ignorant towards their struggles. As
Many people have seen elections come and go but with nothing changing for them, as things don’t get sufficiently better for them. They are still in the same position that they were the previous elections. This sense of bad experiences lead to people to feel alienated by the government, making people lose trust and results in a lack of trust for people who are asking for these peoples vote. Another example of bad experiences being when politicians promise certain things, and say that they will change many policies, leading to people to vote for them, yet when they go back on these promises people feel betrayed and this leads bad experiences to be the main reason and impact upon their voting