**Election nerd alert**
Chris Hanretty, a professor of politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, has looked into the issue of the student vote in a series of tweets.
Based on assumptions about the number of students in the UK and their voting habits, he says that if 10% of students who would normally vote decide to skip the election because of vacation, there would be between 144,200 and 188,500 fewer votes in total.
He goes on to explore the nitty gritty details of what that would mean for different parties (hint: Labour and Lib Dems would lose the most).
Read the whole thread here:
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