Are we heading back to two-party politics?
Is the flow of the past decades being reversed? At the general election on May 6th the proportion of the electors voting for the two main parties hit an all-time low. The total number of voters going blue-red was fewer than two in three of all votes cast. But are the exceptional circumstances of 2010 creating an environment in which two party politics can return? In the overnight polling ICM’s C41-L35-LD15 had the aggregate at 76% while YouGov’s C43-L36-LD16 put…