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

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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

I keep seeing articles about how voter registration rates are much lower among the 18-24 age group. I wonder whether the issue is not so much students, who are likely be living with a lot of other students and talk with each other about the upcoming election, but perhaps people at the upper end of that age range who are likely to be living in short term lets and haven't thought about registering at their current address, particularly if they have moved in since the council sent its household enquiry form round in the summer.

Corbyn has no chance in my area

Is he standing in your area?

My 18yo is voting in both the UK and the US.

@epcotforever because they’re wrong? 😉

Both of my DD's will be, one for the first time. They have had it drummed into them that it is is both their civic duty to vote and that all women should honour those who laid down their lives so we even have the right to do so. They are quite political and dd1 is our campaigning now to get young people to vote

Ps dd1 lives at home, super safe seat and we both like our mp who we know personally. Dd2 is voting at university because it's marginal, under 3000 majority at least (as opposed to 23k)

My colleague's DD is in that age range, she was gutted that she missed the last election by a couple of days.

She is actually studying politics, spend work experience in the House of Commons and wants to work there in the future. She will vote at her uni though and actively campaigns to get students to register and vote.

Yes voting is important. Except when it’s a national referendum of course and your vote is then completely ignored.

I'm 26 but still at uni (one of the two Coventry ones). Most people I know are planning on voting, and I organised postal vote for my home constituency a while ago.

However, like OPs DD I'm a bit meh. Having grown up in the UK since I was a toddler, this will be my first gen election after becoming a citizen just over a year ago. But pretty sure my vote will be wasted.

Cov NE (uni) has been solidly Labour, and Horsham (home) is solidly Tory. Will be voting against MP in Horsham rather than for a particular party mainly as he's not achieved anything. Still won't unseat him though.

I do find it funny when people get work up when people don't vote. My OHs family never talk about politics but insist OH votes, even though she has no clue about current affairs or politics. Democracy isn't the same as suffrage.

Yes and they are overwhelmingly voting Labour.

Yes ds is 24 and at Uni, he has organised his postal vote.

They all will be voting for Labour

I am parent to 2 in that age group. Both voting and voting Labour.

Our 6th formers who can vote will be.

Sadly some are quite apathetic because they feel like their vote might be wasted on empty promises.

Thankfully they're still going to.

I teach 6th form. They are all registered and generally well informed in all honesty

All three of mine will be (18,19,20) DD20 says that it is her duty to honour the women that fought for her to get a vote to always use it. She will be voting at uni (more marginal) but the boys will be voting tactically at home with me rather than at uni.

My 20yo DS will be. It's his first time voting in a general election. He even got a letter from House of Commons few weeks ago from our local MP urging him to vote, not that he needed much urging, he's really in to politics!

Dd18 absolutely will be, she believes it's very important.

Yes my relations that age who live in the UK are. I cannot repeat their views on Mr Johnson as it contains a lot of swearing.

I might be being really dim for pointing this out but am I right in thinking that all the young voters are in further education? The 18 - 25 year olds I know, couldn't begin to care, which is so depressing.

Yes, my young person is registered at Uni in the PM's constituency. He won't be voting for him though😁

yes, I am proxy voting on their behalf

Dd will be. Ds who is into politics wishes he could but he is too young

Neither Dd (19) or Ds (17) are in any sort of education.

Both are registered as self employed.

I might be being really dim for pointing this out but am I right in thinking that all the young voters are in further education? The 18 - 25 year olds I know, couldn't begin to care, which is so depressing.

Er... of course not.
Why do you think that ?