Is your other half voting differently to you?

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I just wondered what other people's situations looked like. My DH is Conservative , however I will be voting Labour.

He thinks I'm ridiculous.

I think he's unfair.

Politics is something I find hard to deal with when it comes to DH.

For example, he believes you vote for what suits you and "everyone does that". When I tried to suggest that no, many people vote for what's best for all of us as a country, he said I was ridiculous and 'nobody sensible does that'.

My DH and I vote for the same party.

Mine can’t vote because he’s a European national. Unsurprisingly I will be voting Lib Dem as the only Remain party, what with being married to a European and all that.

I would find it very difficult to be married to someone with very different political views.

Yes, exactly the same as you OP. I just tell him I'm undecided now because I can't bear the ranting at me about how voting Labour will plunge the country into a pit of dispair

This is an argument people use all the time to justify their own selfishness.

Another is that they don’t understand that policies will negatively affect them.

Truth is that people do understand but just have different values.

If it’s not sensible to care about other people when voting is it also not sensible to care about people in your daily life? Should we all just only do what’s best for us? What duty do we owe to each other?

And to add my dp and I are voting the same way this election but we don’t always.

I am voting labour as our local MP is good although can’t get enthused about any of the leadership at present. Very depressing election. DH feels disinclined to vote for anyone. He did this for the European Elections too but came with me for the walk and then at the last minute his conscience got the better of him and he voted. So we’ll see!

I have no idea. I never tell anyone how i vote and i don't wish to know how he votes.

We both vote Labour. I think if DP was a Tory voter we'd argue a lot!

Me Lib Dem
Oh conservatives

My husband and are differ on who we support too. We try and stay polite about it in our discussions but they can get a little fraught!

We are the same you, OP. We mostly have a veto on political talk because it gets too heated and the real truth is that we are both centrists but I am left of centre, he is right of it. We agree on the basics but we don’t necessarily agree on how to go about implementing/funding them.

We don’t actually talk about it. We do talk politics but we never explicitly say who we’re voting for. I suspect he will vote Labour, I tend to vote Lib Dem’s as that is the party that my personal views align to the most, according to the website quizzes.

My DH is voting Lib Dem this time and I'm voting (and actively campaigning for) Labour as always. I think he's ridiculous. He thinks I'm deluded. We've agreed to disagree and it's fine - though it helps that we won't be in the same place as the results come in as I'll be at my local count and he'll be at home.

I'm not sure I'd be as fine if he was going to vote Tory though. That level of disregard for the society he lives in, and for the social safety net that's been there when he needed it, would be very difficult to square with my view of him as a fundamentally decent human being.

Mine voted Tory until the 2016 referendum and the clusterfuck that followed. He voted Labour in 2017 and I'm fairly sure will this time too.
We didn't talk politics before the referendum, but we do now. He is still more right wing than me, but definitely more left wing than I think even he realised before. The party most aligned with my views are Green, but they're not standing in my constituency this time and Labour are the only ones with the slimmest of chances to beat the Tories.

Stbexh and i always voted the same until corbyn came on the scene, I don't like the shift to the left basically. I'm in a super safe seat anyway. New man votes Lib Dem who by coincidence campaigned for during council elections.

I've voted tactically (postal vote) but if I'd voted for the candidate/party I would prefer, my vote would have been the same as that of my husband.

We are both voting labour. Be we voted differently in the EU referendum. We still do not agree on Brexit.

We keep our votes private but pretty sure he's a Tory voter and I never have been. Ds however is voting Labour

My DH is not into politics and has never voted before.

I'm also married to a European national who cannot vote, but we would be voting the same if he were entitled to. I would find it very hard to be married to someone with vastly different political views to my own.

Both voting Conservative in a Tory/Labour marginal. Anyone but Corbyn.

We don’t actually talk about it. We do talk politics but we never explicitly say who we’re voting for.

Same here. I know his broad political leanings so could hazard a guess but I'm not certain.

Yes, he is voting Lib Dem, I voted Green (postal vote). As long as people make an informed choice and don't not vote then I don't have a problem.

We support different parties but are of the same leaning. We disagree on a lot of things but it never gets nasty or heated as we agree on the really important stuff

Husband and I have never voted for the same Party, we don't discuss politics either.