To ask if you have the same political views as your significant other?

I'd say we are both relatively left central, he leans slightly more left than I do. We've both had similar upbringings and life choices.

We tend to discuss candidates before polling but don't inform each other to who we are voting for. Tend to be the same 99% of the time.

We're broadly aligned. Both left of centre. I'm probably further left.

I vote more tactically, he votes based on his ethics.

Yes.

Yes I and dh do share the same political views.

Yes.
Thank you @DoAWheelie , this is what I was trying to say, but you said it much better.

You should think for yourself on each topic, not just leap into a camp because it’s part of your ‘tribe’

100% agree with this.

I also think people should be able to get on with people who hold different views from themselves on some topics. I broke up with someone I was engaged to many years ago because I came to realise that he seemed to think that I should agree with him in a discussion, rather than having thought out my own opinion, and he couldn't handle the concept that there would be times in life when we disagreed with one another.

Personally, I don’t understand how someone can marry someone else with completely opposing views because aligning core values are essential in a relationship and someone’s political beliefs represent who they are as a person. I wouldn’t be compatible with someone who didn’t largely share my values and there would be too many heated debates. It would depend upon how different they were as everyone has different opinions but if they were wildly misaligned then it wouldn’t work.

Nope but I'd say neither of us are at the far ends of the spectrum. My left leaning family take the piss out of him mercilessly but he drinks bitter so in my brothers' eyes he's not all bad!

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Nope, but we don't discuss politics, religion, global warming, current affairs.... in fact I'm not sure what we do talk about😂 luckily I have lots of lovely girlfriends to talk to, and I like to catch up with the news on Sunday mornings I have become my parents!

Yep. DH and I have the same views.

It's my mother and I who have opposing views. We've silently agreed to no longer discuss politics. Otherwise, we end up having big arguments.

No-one seems to have the same views as I do, which is extremely bizarre as they are spot-on!

There is a trend to think that if someone holds views opposite to you they are somehow a bad person.

@Solpa Yes, sadly there’s a lot of intolerance for differing opinions right now-yet being allowed to have different options is an essential tenet of a democracy.

My American FIL, who’s a nice person, voted for Trump in the last election. He was misguided, not bad or evil, he’s voted Democrat in the past, but they did a bad job appealing to centrist voters last election.

Yes - I couldn’t be with someone vastly different I don’t think. We’re both right - I’m probably more right than he is.

No, but neither of us are extreme in our views.

No, my DH and his family/my parents are all quite a bit more conservative/right wing than me. DH works in a very stereotypical working class/blokey environment and sometimes I have to tell him he's talking rubbish lol. He's more liberal now than when we were very young together, but I'm sure he thinks I'm a bit of a hippy 😂

Yes - there are probably some nuanced differences but the core values are the same.

I wouldn’t have got past date 2/3 if our politics were totally mismatched.

This is us. We have some slightly different opinions round the edges but have the same core values and largely vote the same so that's good enough for me!

I work in public sector and he owns a business. We have different ideas about the best way to get things done and organise money but would ideally see the same end goal, a more equal better funded society.

Yes we are both Labour and from
Labour families

Very similar, yes. We don't agree on every single issue but our political and ethical beliefs are closely aligned. I couldn't be with anyone who held right-wing views as I see this as being fundamentally incompatible with the values that I want in a partner.

We didn't, and he voted Tory on 2010.

Within a year or so he decided he's never voting Tory again. I'm a lot more political than he used to be so over the years we've spoken about political issues a lot.

Yes, we are both centre left. I couldn't with anyone with right leaning morals. So yes i think its important

We live in the US. Yes, we have the same basic 'major' political views and beliefs, but we do differ on certain issues. We respect each other's right to a different point of view on these issues and just 'agree to disagree'.

No we are both floating voters and have differing opinions on different matters. Both would probably be somewhere in the centre but sometimes I am more left and he is more right and vice versa. Isn't an issue for us because it's not really a hot topic of conversation so doesn't lead to rows. Most elections I have no idea who I am going to vote for until I am there.

Our differing views of football on the other hand are often a cause for debate though!

Pretty similar. He's probably a little more centrist than me, but we agree on the important stuff.

No. He's straight Labour, I'm more of a centre left floating voter. I will vote for policies rather than party unless it's really close between Labour and the Conservatives in which case I'd vote tactically against the Conservatives. We agree on most politics though.