Editing Silent Generation (section)

====General trends====
An analysis of [[British Election Study]] surveys for the [[1964 United Kingdom general election|1964]] to [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019]] general elections suggested that the Silent Generation as a cohort became more likely to vote for the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] as they grew older. The results suggested that at 35 years old, people born from 1928 to 1945 were about 5 percentage points less likely to vote Conservative than the national average, but that by the time they were 70 years old, they were about ten percentage points more likely to do so than the national average. They were, however, by the end of the time period studied, less likely to vote for the Conservatives than the next youngest age group, baby boomers. An article on the analysis commented that it is conventional wisdom that people become more conservative as they get older but that isn't true of all the age groups the analysis covered and environmental factors are also important in influencing the development of voter behavior.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Burn-Murdoch |first=John |date=December 30, 2022 |title=Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4 |access-date=January 17, 2023 |archive-date=January 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115233549/https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4 |url-status=live }}</ref>