Are you voting for 'the person' or the national policies?

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As of right now I'm still an undecided voter but I'm shortly about to walk to the Polling station and hope I get some clarity on the way.

Question...as you choose your vote, are you voting with your local candidate in mind and what they will or won't do locally or are you voting for the overall national policies of the party?

My local candidates don't fill me with much confidence and one of them didn't even turn up to a hustings that all the other candidates attended. But maybe I need to adjust my thinking and go for the party who, overall, has the national policies that I can support, rather than worry about the local candidates? Hhhmm!

Both.

I live in a safe Labour seat with a very good MP. General election voting is always easy for me.

I don’t agree with Labours stance or lack of it, on single sex spaces. I don’t agree with their lack of a plan for Gaza. I think Keir Starmer really overstepped when he said we would not rejoin the EU in his lifetime. I am a Labour Party member but seriously considered resigning and voting SDP.
However, Labour do have a plan to fix NHS dentistry. I know it’s a bit niche, and it doesn’t affect me personally as I have private dental insurance. But I took for granted that my kids, now grown would have dental care, and now whole towns have no available NHS dentists. It’s a scandal. So I voted Labour.

Combination of both as candidate who I am voting for because of national level I think will be a really good MP.

I might have voted differently than at the last three general elections, but when discovering that the party I support had a local person standing and given the non-party work they have done, voted for the same party.

I couldn’t decide who to vote for until this morning.

In the end I went for who was best for the area I live in!

It's tricky for me. My MP is a good, kind and supportive MP who gets involved in local issues and addresses problems raised by constituents. BUT he's Conservative and much as I am a more natural conservative voter I truly believe we need a change to Labour at this point.

So I will vote Labour but part of me feels I should vote personally.

I live in a very very safe seat for the sitting MP (who I don't support as a person or a party). The chance of them losing their seat is extremely low. So I will be voting tactically, for what it's worth.

I voted Conservative all my life (I'm mid 60s now), but I couldn't again. Neither could I ever vote for Labour. Both are run by millionaires who don't know anything about ordinary people, and neither of whom gives a fuck about them.

Policies.

I know who I don't want and why but I believe the the 2 main parties are just different cheeks of the same arse .
Conservatives have done nothing for me as a woman over the past 14 years and Labour I believe will try and take away any rights that we as women still have left . I also don't believe kier starmer has the best interests of women and children at heart due to past transgressions particularly when he was in charge of the Rochdale grooming prosecutions and when he had chance to prosecute jimmy Saville .

A bit of both, in my constituency realistically it's between 2 candidates and they are the 2 parties I have been undecided between so won't be gutted if either gets in, so in the end I went for the candidate I like best.

Are you being sarcastic? Apologies if not but...really...?

So you actually knowingly voted for a racist?

I spoiled my ballot as was completely undecided on the way there. None of them deserve my vote this time.

Please vote them out 🙏

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National

How did it take you getting to your sixth decade to grok that? Especially for the Tories, of all people.

It’s fascinating.

I have an excellent labour mp- so I voted for her.

Policies.

A happy combination of preferred policies and decent candidate for me.

Fortunately, I feel the best candidate is also the best national vote. But in a GE if I was struggling I’d go for the national picture.

The old adage is that even a monkey can get elected with the right colour rosette. I suspect that's how most people choose, including me.

Generally speaking, in a General Election I vote for the National Party politics, and in a local election (which we have also had today) I generally vote for the individual person.

In the GE today though, I have voted against the one party, rather than for any party.

Person- the incumbent is a great constituency MP who works really hard. He’s conservative.
The Labour candidate was the MP before and he was useless.