General election - Do you and your partner vote the same or differently?

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And if you do vote differently, how do you reconcile that? Does it not matter all that much? Or is it something you can't get past?

It depends. This election we'll both be voting Labour, but he is further right than me and has sometimes voted Tory in the past. Not an issue between us at all.

Sometimes the same sometimes differently, I was really intolerant when younger and couldn’t understand how you could be married to someone who voted differently to you. My family all seem to vote for different parties too. Always some interesting discussions to be had. We have never all voted the same way.

We don't vote the same necessarily but are similar-ish. But we are definitely on the same page what not to vote.

We discuss politics but never actually ask who the other one has voted for.

Mine voted UKIP in whatever year they sprang up, then Brexit Party, then Tory, and I've never been able to get past any of that.

Sometimes different, sometimes the same. He’s more of a floater voter than me. It doesn’t bother either of us which way we vote, I’d say he is probably more left wing though x

It varies. I think a couple of elections ago I voted Green while he voted Labour. We might have both voted labour after that. This time I think I will either spoil my ballot or protest vote for a smaller party and he will either vote lab or lib dems.

Usually the same. In 2019 I voted Labour and he voted Green. That was the first time we've voted differently. We'll be voting differently again this time. Me (reluctantly) for Labour and him for the Greens.

We have a similar moral compass so vote in a similar way. We are very much politically and morally aligned.

I don't know how other couples reconcile being so diverse in views tbh

We would usually vote the same but I'm planning to vote tactically this time so we will differ.

Sometimes the same, often differently.

DH has voted Conservative in the past three general elections, I am a floating voter and voted Conservative, Green and Lib Dem.

This time round I haven't decided who I'm voting for, I would vote for the Party of Women but don't have a candidate in my area. I'll be waiting to read the manifestos then deciding, DH says the same but I'm pretty sure he'll vote Conservative again, but perhaps not!

It doesn't affect our relationship at all. We enjoy discussing politics and there are lots of things we both agree on, and there are areas that we disagree on or would take different approaches. I'm glad we are able to have an adult discussion about important matters and argue our own points without falling out.

We vote the same.

Same in this house. DH spoilt his ballot paper in the Brexit referendum. I nearly left him over it! He said he did it because he didn't think either side explained the issues properly, but I have a degree in Politics and a Masters degree in Law, bith of which have a huge EU element in them. He didn't ask me to explain anything once. I suspect he didn't vote because he couldn't be bothered though, and then tried to make it into a noble gesture because he knew I'd be missed off about it. He is a Corbynite and is pretty hard Left, whereas I am centre Left. He also belings to weird facebook groups. To be honest, I think we are further apart politically than a centre Left Labour supporter and a Centre Right one nation Conservative would be, but there are hardly any of them left now. I'm voting Labour, he's voting Green. We are in a Tory/Labour marginal, so it does concern me that green voters are basically letting the Tories in again. He doesn't seem to care, which is irritating too. We dont talk about it. Luckily I'm away for the election ( postal vote) I applied to be an election official in 2019 so I wouldn't have to he in the house for the inevitable rout.Even though we both hoped Labour, he was a Labour member and thought they would win. I held my nose and voted Labour, knowing they woukd lose.

We agree on the sort of world we want to live in and the way we would like the government to bring that about, but not always on which party or candidate is the best match.

As far as I know the same, obviously what you do at the ballot box is private. If he told me he supported the conservatives I’d find that hard to get past. If he supported Reform I wouldn’t be able to get past that. It’s not about politics but shared values. I think he’d feel the same with me. Other than that I wouldn’t mind if he supported a different party than me.

I would find it very difficult ultimately to live long term with someone whose values and priorities didn't match mine. Fortunately, I don't have to!

We have similar views on the politics but not the process. We live in a very safe seat (for a party neither of us votes for) and he often can’t be bothered to vote on that basis whereas I always do even though it never changes anything. I vote tactically, he votes for his first choice regardless, when he bothers to vote.

We vote the same, I couldn’t be with someone who had vastly different political views to me. I wouldn’t be bothered as a labour voter if he voted green, but if he voted conservative then I would be.

I think the idea of "values" is not the same as policies though. We vote very differently but it would be hard to find values we don't agree on. Everything from private education to immigration really.
He just can't bring himself to vote for one side of the political divide and I can't vote for the other.