1983 voting behaviour

• Conservatives got a higher percentage of the vote from non manual workers than manual workers who voted more for Labour - trade unions had a greater impact on politics and Thatcher wanted to reform trade unions
• A reason for class dealignment

  Embourgeoisement - poorer underclass of manual workers became more affluent so their interests and party loyalties changed while still being identified as a lower class
• A reason for class dealignment

  Changes in the occuptional and industrial structure - manual wokers were for the first time a minority so more non manual workers made it harder to define class as the lower class was no longer just manual labourers