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'.

I'm quite politically engaged and active and could never see myself in a relationship with someone who wasn't, or whose political views weren't similar.

OH may well vote differently to me this time as a kind of protest vote but as we are in one of the safest seats in the country it will make no difference.

I wouldn't be in a relationship with someone who didn't have broadly similar political views.
But we don't always vote for the same party.

DH is more liberal than me (although sometimes I think he just wants to be able to do what he wants to do, but not necessarily apply that to the test of the country).

Generally, I vote Labour, he'd like to vote Lib Dem but ends up voting Labour because of the seat we're in. Our (Labour) MP is a good one to be fair.

Nope both Tories

Don't know any labour voters

Lesser of two evils.

No, we both voted labour this time (postal vote). We have the same values so our political views align as well.

A good friend of mine who is very left wing has a Tory partner. I always thought that must be tricky enough for him, but then this year his partner left the Tories and was standing as a Brexit party candidate, until Farage and Johnson did their deal and his candidacy was stopped.

I can’t get my head round how they reconcile their differences.

Dp is one of the 'they are all as bad as each other' types. I don't think he would vote Tory but in this area it won't make much difference anyway.

as far as I know, we vote the same. we seem to share a hatred of Boris.

I don’t think I could be married to a Tory.

I'm lucky as my DP (including most of my family) have all have the same political views as me this election. But DP did vote leave in Brexit and I voted remain and it caused some heated debates in our house at the time. He regrets his vote now so it's all good 😂

Yes, but neither of us really knew how to vote this fine and we both didn’t want to vote conservative. It’s a safe seat here so makes pretty much zero difference.

We voted for same. Labour.

We vote differently and always have, but we hold the same core values. Just disagree on how to achieve them. Because we respect each other and our opinions it rarely causes issues tbh.

Neither of us subscribes to the "pit of despair Labour" or "evil Tories" caricatures either which helps.

(Although interestingly neither of us are voting for our usual party of choice this time and are agreed for once. Found this out last night when we realised we had both come to this conclusion individually)

Rarely vote the same, and we just respect eachother's choice. I'm a floating voter, but made up my mind a long time ago who I'd be voting for. DH is voting for a different party for the first time since he was given the vote.

Broadly speaking we have similar views but we end up voting for different parties because we each feel more strongly about different topics.

I don't think I could be married to anyone who polar opposite political views to me though.

No, thankfully we both vote labour. I think Tory voters have a fundamentally different view of the world and I don’t think we’d be at all suited!

I don't know who my husband has voted for and would not tell him who I have either.
I think voting is private for good reason and everyone (luckily) is entitled to the freedom of voting for whoever they like without risk of persecution or being shamed. That is democracy.

Not really sure how you could marry someone with a very different political perspective.

Me and OH are "on the same page" on just about everything - we wouldn't have got together otherwise. No way could I have got involved with someone with radically different thoughts/views on anything really.

We vote for the same party, Labour and we’re both members too.

We've both flipped between Labour and Lib Dem over the years, sometimes going the same way, sometimes not.

Neither of us would vote Tory unless someone had a gun to our children's heads. If either of us started leaning towards being Tories it would represent such a fundamental shift in our values it would cause a huge rift.

I think so but we've both weighed up the same issues and come to different conclusions.

DH and I voted for the same party. There has been times in past elections when he never bothered to vote. But thankfully has now realized how important it is. DH helped set up a foodbank a few months ago and I think that has definitely opened his eyes to how desperate the situation is for so many people, including young families like ours.

Just last night he had a call that an emergency food package was needed so off he went. A very upset single father with 2 young DC and no food in the house was sanctioned and his universal credit was stopped most definitely not an isolated case!

Yes we voted differently but don't mind. Can see both sides!

I usually vote Green and DP usually votes labour. Greens aren’t running in my constituency this year so I’ve voted Lib Dem as a tactical vote. DP hasn’t voted yet, he will either vote for Lib Dems tactically or vote Labour but is still undecided.

We both have left wing ideals so I think as long as each of us are voting left it doesn’t matter if we differ but I think both of us would find it hard if the other voted Tory or another right-wing party.

Yes and I wouldn’t mind at all except he’s only voting conservative as our friends keep sharing anti labour memes and he “doesn’t like Corbyn”. That’s literally the extent of his political knowledge. He doesn’t even know ours local MP’s name! He did say a few weeks ago that he’s starting to agree more with Labour but no he just follows like a sheep...