Salient are very important issues at stake in the election and voters are influenced as parties make the salient issues the main elements in their campaigns
Election issues
Brexit and whether voters preferred a second referendum or Boris Johnson's 'oven-ready' deal to 'get Brexit done' (2019)
The deficit and public finances, and whether there would be public-sector cuts or tax rises to address the problem (2010)
Trade union power after a winter of industrial unrest (1979)