0 someone who has not yet decided who to vote for in an election --
1 someone who does not always vote for the same political party and who might be persuaded to vote for one of several parties in an election: --
Fourthly, the swing voters' choice of party defies such classification, and seems to depend more on the candidates' performance and on issues, signifying an evaluative and relatively 'mature ' voting behaviour.
It is not, for example, as if swing voters were disproportionately public sector employees.
But women are less likely to be swing voters than men, which is also interesting.
Nor do men and women differ in the weight of their party support among either core or swing voters.
Finally, swing voters seem to be characterised by a conscious evaluation of government and candidate performance in a sign of relatively ' mature ' democratic voting behaviour.
It is not a huge difference but noticeable, as women make 35% of the swing voters, whereas their share of core voters exceeds 40%.
Table 5 shows the importance of demographic features for the party alignment of core and swing voters respectively.
A second conclusion is that the core and swing voters cannot be distinguished by structural criteria.
