So, how many of you have the same political views/leanings as your DP/DH?

On and off and thankfully live out DP completely opposite ends of spectrum, and he is a campaigner, just off to Tooting as we speak.

It does make things difficult, we bicker a lot over policy and specific people who he helps campaign for and I hate

Dh and I used to vote in the same way, but in this election we are going to do our own thing.

We both used to be committed Labour voters, but we have both been disappointed with how Labour have blown it. Dh believes that Tony Blair had the potential to be the best PM since Winston Churchill, but lost it all in his devotion to George Bush and his enmity to Gordon Brown. I'm not sure that I would go that far, but I do still feel deeply disappointed in Blair. I had such high hopes for him.

my DH doesn't vote, which makes me extremely cross

DP and I have very similar political views; I think it is one of the things that has always attracted me most to him. It comes from very different backgrounds though: his from growing up with very conservative parents during the Thatcher years and finding his political calling as a teenager; me from having frankly ridiculously radical parents who took me on marches and demos pretty much every weekend and very effectively taught their values to me. To me our shared values and political views are incredibly important and I?d really struggle to be in a committed relationship with someone who had ones that were significantly different to mine.

We also have very similar interests, music, TV and film tastes, and our tastes in books intersect a lot. We support the same football team and always have. We even like the same food. I think we are probably very boring! I like to make a big deal about things like the fact that he likes pickled onions and I think they?re devil food, because it makes me feel like we?re not actually the same person.

DH and I vote the same.

It's a good job he votes for a party I agree with and not the BNP or something as I have his proxy vote!!

broadly similar, and generally vote the same. I think that I have voted tactically in the past when he has voted for his first choice of party, but our intentions have been the same.

Normally DH and I vote the same but for some reason my normally sit-on-the-fence, mild mannered and slightly indecisive DH has been ranting about Brown for the last 6 weeks and bigging up the Tories so I feel like voting Labour just to even things out!

Don't know what's got into him. We don't normally vote labour but there is no reasoned arguing with him at the moment. Normally I get frustrated with him when he has no real opinion but I think I prefer that DH than the one I have this time!

But we aren't arguing - you can't argue with a mad-man.

Pretty similar, although dp perhaps a little further right, and less anxious to vote tactically than me. Hence some heated discussions about the Lib Dem stakeboard which he has had put up outside our front door in our Labour/Tory marginal seat.

Thank you RooBear .

(educated.... duh, sorry for the typo!)

We've voted differently. I voted for the party I want, even though it's probably a wasted vote, and he voted tactically.
We both support the same party though.

DP is a bit thick not very well educated, and so doesn't know much about politics etc. He said a few weeks back that he did not want labour back in power, but did not know who to vote for instead. As a very firm LAB supporter, I have spent the last few weeks talking loudly about how much I will mourn the loss of our tax credits, and very possibly lose my lovely public sector job therefore he will have to work twice as hard to support us. Suffice to say, he is now firmly labour!

Hmm, I think we are voting the same this year, but that's not always the case. DH came from much more trad conservative background, so I think he was hard wired differently, if that makes sense.

To be honest, we share mostly the same values, so what he votes is his own business. Obviously if he voted bnp, I would feel some kind of re-assessment was needed (!!!!!!), but I don't think I have a closet bigot in the house....

Wierdly though, we had a bumch of dh's friends for dinner last year, and a woman there had just been off for a day of finding out how to become an MP. I asked what party, and everyone turned round and looked at me as if I was bonkers for asking and said "Conservative of course...". I did wonder whether all of these university edicated people had actually THOUGHT about their political beleifs, or whether they were just doing what their parents had always done....

(baffled)

Same. DH is very persuadable

we do it is one of those fundamental things, political views, atheism that have an impact on living together and bringing up a child together

We are pretty much the same, he is farther left than me, but pretty much agree onmost things.
We can have a good discussion without getting heated/arguing.

Not the case with my Mother...I tend to just give her wine until she falls asleep, once she is off on one there is no stopping her.

oh well - I do like your name though!

completely different.

We have voted differently. It's actually the first time that either of us have ever voted so there has never really been cause for discussion about it until this morning as we were getting ready to go to the polling station and then a 'debate' () started!

There would have been no chance RooBear ! Our relationship would have been doomed from the start .

We agree on everything but politics.

The thing I can see is that we are both products of our upbringings and, while obviously grown-ups should make their own minds up, the influence of background is strong.

So on that basis I can overlook DHs politics, as I know he's not actually a nasty selfish person, he isn't, he's just been indoctrinated. When I ask him specific questions the answers that he gives are not in line with how he (sometimes) votes IYSWIM.

We agree to disagree, but the London Mayor elections are always ratehr trying

I do.

oh I'm a Tory eddieizzardismyhero good job you didn't marry me!