Are the 18 - 25's you know going to vote?

[Parsley65]

My DD16 grimaced when the news came on this morning and it was the usual diet of politics.

Luckily several of her friends take this subject, so she has views and informs me she will definitely be voting in the future.

I'm wondering if this is typical of the young people you know who are of voting age, as I'm sure when I was that age I didn't care

My young person will be!

DS is in that age group and is definitely planning to vote! He is a student living away at university and so has a choice whether to vote in his home or university constituency. He has applied for a postal vote to enable him to vote in our home constituency, as his university constituency appears to be a safe Labour seat whereas recent history shows our home constituency is not a safe seat for anyone.

A lot of DS's friends live in an even more marginal constituency and are making sure they vote at home rather than at their respective universities which, as it happens, generally appear to be in safe Labour seats. Obviously, I appreciate that it's not always the university constituency that is the safe one. I gather Boris Johnson's constituency has Brunel University in it and that there's something of a campaign going on to encourage students to vote there to try to unseat Johnson. Keele University is in the constituency of Newcastle under Lyme where the Labour candidate won by just 30 votes last time, so if I were a Keele student, I would definitely be wanting to vote at university!

DD will be voting.

All the young people I know are very passionate about voting!! It's great!

I teach that age bracket and when I talk to them about current affairs most are disengaged and are unlikely to vote

Yes and passionate about Corbyn

Most seem like they will. DS1 is gutted he can't as he doesn't turn 18 until March!

DD is planning on voting at 7am on Election Day. She's also standing for the Lib Dems in the school's mock election so lots of research going on here.

Voting here for conservative, I'm 25. Corbyn has no chance in my area. Thank God. Neighbors signs for Labour have been replaced with LibDems.

*Please don't question my political views.

Planning to nag DD till she agrees to either vote or spoil her ballot in protest. I'm so utterly sick of hearing I can't be bothered etc

My eldest is a bit meh about it

My youngest never stfu about it and is pro Labour ++

Yes. All the youngsters I know however are not voting labour.

Wow! It sounds a lot more positive than the news (surprise, surprise.)

Like the different political opinions too. I don't care how my DC vote, but would definitely encourage them to do it!

20 year old DS1 is going to vote. He missed it by a matter of weeks last election.
This time around DS2 will be the one missing out by a month.

Not sure how typical MN is though !

I have 3 dc in that age bracket and all feel strongly it is important to vote however very much like myself all are horrified by the way Politics is acted out, and that makes it difficult to encourage people who aren't engaged, to engage.
ALL Politicians, of ever hue, need to grow up and actually settle down to some proper debate about the best way to tackle issues, rather than the constant 'soundbites' and the constant slagging off of the opposition. Might be easier to engage people to 'join the debate' then.
I'm doing a lot of talking with my 18 yr old in particular about voting with who - overall - aligns closely with your thinking, despite their never being a party that agrees with your thinking on everything they say / do.

We've got lots of young people coming out to canvass and deliver leaflets etc. We're not a university constituency, but the university Labour groups are going out to neighbouring constituencies to help out. It's great to see them so engaged

Please don’t question my political views

Why not?

Yes. DS will be voting Labour, we have already spoken about it. He is 18 and this will be his third polling day experience already (local and european elections before this).

DD is 11 and wishes she could vote already!

To everyone who has responded saying that they know young people who are planning to vote, I would say that it is well worth checking that they understand that they need to be registered in order to vote. There is still time, though registration closes at 11.59pm on 26 November, so not long now (and I think it's unwise to leave until the last minute in case a last minute surge causes the system to crash). I mention this because in the local elections, one of DS's friends actually got in touch with him to ask how to go about voting. Unfortunately, it turned out that the friend couldn't vote because he wasn't registered.

We received our polling cards some time ago, so I expect most people who are registered will by now have received their polling cards (unless they have only registered very recently).

My DC and all their friends will be voting. They're at uni and have registered tactically like Hereismyreply's DS.

DS was 18 and in the sixth form for the last general election. He and his classmates were bitter about Brexit (especially as there had been talk of lowering the voting age to 16 for the referendum) and determined that they used their votes as soon as they had the chance. They all got together to share lifts to the polling station.

DS is registered to vote in his Uni town and at home as he doesn't know where he'll be on the day.
I told him postal vote is the way to go but I think he want's the Polling Station experience. Do they still have the pens on string and little booths?

That's interesting Sparklingbrook because I know my DS is a bit sorry not to get the polling station experience, but in his case head won over heart because he likes our current MP, but can see there is a risk of him losing his seat this time.

And I think it's pencils rather than pens, but yes the polling stations are still as you describe!

I'm in that age range and I am voting.

Yes definitely