Assuming this is not just a chance to bash the other side, I think you have to understand what (traditionally) makes Conservatives, conservative.
Socially conservative: Typically this means people who believe the more traditonal approach to societal matters is best. Often short-named as 'family values; they tend to be more supportive of traditional gender roles, of modest sexual behaviour, religion and patriotism. That's one of the reasons the right is typically seen as the fiend of the military - because patriotism and military strength tend be seen hand in hand.
Fiscally conservative: This means a small state. It tends to be mean low taxes and lower levels of support for vulnerable people - prefering something a bit more along the lines of everyone taking care of themselves. It gives people greater controls over their own money and greater choice over how they spend it but leaves them a bit more at the mercy of the fates if they get ill etc. Belief in the market means private business is encouraged to run more services under the belief that when customers can vote with their wallet, better services result. Things like the NHS and the State person are quite unconservative, at heart.
I've probaably depicted above, a more extreme version of conservatism above than we've seen in a while in some matters. e.g. recent Tory governments have tended to be been high tax, not low tax. They have tended to cut military funding rather than increase it.
This current lot of Conservatives may have chucked much of that on the head - but when you view it like this, it's easier to understand why people might prefer a right-leaning government.
(And for the record, I've been about as disgusted with this government as it's possible to be and my own political compass point tends to be a bit more left/liberal than the centre).