So, how many of you have the same political views/leanings as your DP/DH?

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I've seen on some of the threads here that there are people who's DP/Hs are at the opposite end of the spectrum.

DP and I are pretty similar, which he's happy about - he can't vote in the election, but is glad that we would both vote for the same party so I'm kind of voting for both of us.

Do you end up fighting a lot (around election time)? I don't know if I could be with someone who had the opposite political views to me. Same on religious views. And music. Movies we differ, SUBSTANTIALLY

DH and I vote the same.

It's a good job he votes for a party I agree with and not the BNP or something as I have his proxy vote!!

DP and I have very similar political views; I think it is one of the things that has always attracted me most to him. It comes from very different backgrounds though: his from growing up with very conservative parents during the Thatcher years and finding his political calling as a teenager; me from having frankly ridiculously radical parents who took me on marches and demos pretty much every weekend and very effectively taught their values to me. To me our shared values and political views are incredibly important and I?d really struggle to be in a committed relationship with someone who had ones that were significantly different to mine.

We also have very similar interests, music, TV and film tastes, and our tastes in books intersect a lot. We support the same football team and always have. We even like the same food. I think we are probably very boring! I like to make a big deal about things like the fact that he likes pickled onions and I think they?re devil food, because it makes me feel like we?re not actually the same person.

my DH doesn't vote, which makes me extremely cross

Dh and I used to vote in the same way, but in this election we are going to do our own thing.

We both used to be committed Labour voters, but we have both been disappointed with how Labour have blown it. Dh believes that Tony Blair had the potential to be the best PM since Winston Churchill, but lost it all in his devotion to George Bush and his enmity to Gordon Brown. I'm not sure that I would go that far, but I do still feel deeply disappointed in Blair. I had such high hopes for him.

On and off and thankfully live out DP completely opposite ends of spectrum, and he is a campaigner, just off to Tooting as we speak.

It does make things difficult, we bicker a lot over policy and specific people who he helps campaign for and I hate