On the streets of the Greater Manchester suburb where the majority 'don't see the point' in voting
Most people don't vote in local elections. Last year, fewer than one in four residents who were registered to vote in Manchester - which had the lowest turnout in Greater Manchester - actually voted in the local council contest.
Two weeks before the election, the Local Democracy Reporting Service spoke to students in Fallowfield about why many won't vote on May 4. Tom Sanders, 21, who studies at the University of Manchester, says he doesn't see the point. Nicole, 19, who also lives in Fallowfield, says she doesn't really follow politics. But she too sees general elections as 'more important' than the local ones.
Although Fallowfield has had the lowest election turnout in Manchester in the last few years, other parts of the city also have particularly low percentages. In Harpurhey, only 17.58 pc of the electorate voted last May and in Miles Platting and Newton Heath, Ardwick, Sharston and Baguley fewer than a fifth of people who were registered to vote actually cast their ballot at the last local elections.
In 'working class' Fallowfield, where Labour won more than 70 pc of votes last year, there is no doubt that this voter apathy is a factor behind the low turnout. Long-term residents make up the majority of the electorate in the council ward, but within the wider Fallowfield area, some say they feel 'voiceless'.
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