General Election 2024: Who Are You Voting For?

[DynamicSpirit]

Who are you planning to vote for?

Feel free to comment in this thread about your voting intentions or your reasons for your decision, but please remember that we already have this thread for more general discussion about the election and post replies to that thread if they deviate from discussing how you or other contributors will be voting.

Also, while I'm sure loads of us will be watching how the %'s for each party stack up in this poll, be aware that railforums users are not necessarily typical of the general population, so don't expect the results of this poll to match the actual election result.

In case you want to compare, these are some of the previous railforums election polls: (Thanks to @ainsworth74 for digging out these links)

2019 general election
2017 general election (in advance of the vote)
2017 general election (addition poll thread around polling day)

This poll will close on 4 July. You can change your vote after voting. Votes are private.

 

[PGAT]

Not able to vote yet :/

Shame that I don’t get to have a say whether or not I will have to do national service in a year or two

 

[Gloster]

All I can say for certain is who I will NOT be voting for. I have long been an ABC voter: Anyone But Conservative.

 

[WelshBluebird]

I'm not actually sure. If i were to vote for who I actually want to then it wouls probably be the greens, but the boundary changes have led to me going from a seat basically just contested by Labour and The Greens (with a decent change of The Greens winning it despite it being a Labour safe seat previously) to a seat that is probably between Labour and the Tories, despite the ward I live in being very green voting. So I somewhat have to think tactically as some parts of the seat are quite Tory.

 

[Merseysider]

Labour. They have their faults for sure but I don’t think the country (or I) can handle another 5 years of the current lot.

 

[d9009alycidon]

I will vote for an MP that is competent, capable and honest.

I'm waiting.........

 

[Electrostar387]

I’d like to vote Labour, but due to our archaic FPTP voting system I have to vote LibDem as they’re most likely to oust the Tories where I am.

 

[507021]

Not that it'll make a difference in my new constituency, but now I feel able to vote Labour again, I'll be doing so.

 

[nw1]

Lib Dem, though primarily tactically as they won't get into government. Labour will not win in my seat, so voting for them is a wasted vote. The Lib Dems might if the Tories have a very, very bad night.

That said, I'd probably rate Lib Dem marginally ahead of Labour in terms of policies, but with both far, far ahead of the Tories.

 

[birchesgreen]

Labour, though i am a party member anyway so it would be strange not to, i live in one of the safest Labour seats in any case.

 

[jfollows]

I haven't voted Conservative since 1992 (John Major) but I wanted - and got - a Conservative/LibDem coalition in 2010 and I wasn't too opposed to the 2015 result at the time.
I might even have voted for Theresa May in 2017, but my local candidate became Esther McVey and I can't vote for her.
In 2019 I voted against Boris Johnson and believe that things turned out worse than my most pessimistic expectations.
Anyway, now I'm voting against the Conservatives again, so I'll vote Labour, even though I don't agree with many of their recent actions - Natalie Elphicke for example. They're too similar to the Conservatives deliberately to avoid scaring the horses. LibDem has better policies, but Labour is more likely to win in Tatton, so they'll get my vote.

 

[Howardh]

Annoying that in my constituency a LD vote is wasted, won't get more than a few thousand, so I'll be lending that vote to Labour tactically.

Would be interesting to see how many from the list have chosen a party tactically rather than of choice?

 

[adc82140]

Since I was old enough to vote, I think I've voted at some point for every mainstream party. Labour in 97, 2001 and 2005, Conservative in 2010, LibDem in 2015 and 2017, Green in 2019. It'll be Lib Dem this time as they are the only party with even the remotest chance of unseating our local Conservative MP.

 

[TheSmiths82]

I am voting labour, as they are the best chance in my constituency of getting rid of the Tories. If I lived in a border constituency such as Cheadle (Stockport) I would have to vote Lib Dems. Interestingly the only conversion with regard to voting in the office I work in is how to vote to get rid of the Tories.

 

[AlterEgo]

I will be voting in an attempt to unseat the Conservative. I'll be voting Labour as a result, albeit without much enthusiasm.

 

[RichJF]

Lib Dem. As it's the only realistic chance in my area of unseating the Blue curse.

 

[Trackman]

Lib Dem here too.

 

[ainsworth74]

I wonder if any of our Reform or Conservative voters are willing to put their head above the parapet and give their reasons for voting thusly? I'd understand if they felt that was, however, an invitation to a public flogging where they're the one to be flogged and opted not to however!

 

[PGAT]

I wonder if any of our Reform or Conservative voters are willing to put their head above the parapet and give their reasons for voting thusly? I'd understand if they felt that was, however, an invitation to a public flogging where they're the one to be flogged and opted not to however!

I’ve heard of people voting for Reform because they will scrap med-student fees

 

[75A]

Sinn Fein for me.

 

[High Dyke]

Still don't have a 'None of the above' choice.

 

[HullRailMan]

I wouldn’t vote Labour if you paid me - as someone who works full time, owns a house and doesn’t have kids, I gained nothing from them last time. They gave me more tax and tuition fees - great!
The Tories, to be fair, helped me into the housing ladder with ‘help to buy’, but that’s where it ends. They have failed to deliver anything remotely conservative.
I vote Lib Dem in the locals as it’s the best way to keep Labour out. However, I wouldn’t vote for them nationally.
I’ll happily vote Reform. Unfortunately it won’t affect the outcome around here as Labour could slap a red rosette on a dead dog and the sheep would still vote for it. That said, the dead dog may be more palatable than the current occupant of the Hull East seat.

 

[Welly]

Safe Tory seat dweller here - planning to tactically vote because I'm sick of the blue funk that is the government at the moment.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

I wonder if any of our Reform or Conservative voters are willing to put their head above the parapet and give their reasons for voting thusly? I'd understand if they felt that was, however, an invitation to a public flogging where they're the one to be flogged and opted not to however!

Well as someone who has often in these forums defended stuff Tory ministers have said/done, and was a member of the Conservatives not that long ago, I'm willing to put my head above the parapet and say I'll be voting LibDem. Which I'm guessing isn't quite what you asked for The Tories lost both my membership and my vote when they went all anti-environmentalist and pro-motoring last year.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I wonder if any of our Reform or Conservative voters are willing to put their head above the parapet and give their reasons for voting thusly? I'd understand if they felt that was, however, an invitation to a public flogging where they're the one to be flogged and opted not to however!

I'm probably going to vote Reform, as my (new) constituency is pretty much guaranteed to go to Labour (part of it is from a former constituency that has been Labour since 1997, the other part is the more urban half of a Lab/Con marginal) so I feel safe making a protest vote. I'm deeply suspicious of Starmer and don't believe he has an ounce of integrity in him. There is a small chance that my protest vote will go to the Yorkshire Party instead, but my usual "none of the mainstream parties" choice would be Green. Unfortunately the Green Party of 2024 have been hijacked by an unholy alliance of Marxists and Islamists (as seen in the recent local elections) so as things stand I'd rather vote Tory than Green.

 

[Ostrich]

My local county council went from Cons to LibDem in the recent May elections. My parliamentary seat should be a Tory hold, but it's in the South West and I was firmly expecting it to be a LibDems target. But no, we haven't had a single LibDem leaflet so far whilst my colleague in a neighbouring constituency with a similar background has been deluged! So maybe the LibDems are regarding my Tory seat as unassailable ......

Which leaves me with a voting dilemma. If the LibDems had been targeting it, I'd have tactically voted Tory in order to frustrate the clowns. But as they're not apparently targeting it, I'll probably not vote (my poll choice above) or, if I'm feeling grumpy, Reform.

The days of feeling positive about a political party and thus voting for them are long gone. I have no confidence in any of them.

 

[Cambus731]

Liberal for two reasons. I believe they still support the reinstatement of HS2. Plus in my constituency they are the only party that could conceivably oust the Tories

 

[3141]

In NW Hampshire, the Conservative had 62% in 2019. If anyone can unseat him (and he's a actually a decent MP) it's the Lib Dems, so that's where my vote will probably go. I hope the Lib Dem candidate is someone worth voting for.

 

[Kite159]

As I've been shifted from North West Hampshire to the 'Romsey & Southampton North' seat I've got no idea who any of the candidates are (other than Caroline Nokes for the Tories but I've got no idea if she is a decent MP or not).

It will probably depend if any of the parties bother sending information via the post, otherwise it might be a vote for the Lib Dems.

 

[Bald Rick]

I'm probably going to vote Reform…

…I'm deeply suspicious of Starmer and don't believe he has an ounce of integrity in him

Interesting logic, given the leader of Reform!


Anyway, I’ll be voting LD, mostly because of their policies on Europe, Education and HS2 reinstatement, partly because the other parties have yet to do any campaigning or canvassing in my constituency (as far as I can tell) - so I don’t know what they stand for locally - and partly because I’m on first name / drinking terms with the LD candidate