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The Vote: Whodunit?
投票：誰干的？
Post-mortem of Britain's electoral upset.
英國大選意外結果的事后反思。
The Conservative Party began the election campaign with an enormous lead and even on election day was expecting to increase its majority.
保守黨以一個大黨派開始競選，甚至期望在選舉日增加多的席位。
What went wrong?
到底哪里出了錯？
The biggest unknown ahead of the election was turnout.
選舉前最大的未知是投票率。
Labour was wildly popular among the young, but polling firms differed in their estimates of how many young people would vote at all.
工黨在年輕人中廣受歡迎，但民意調查公司對最終有多少年輕人投票評估不同。
In the event, Labour's young fans excelled themselves: turnout among people aged 18-24 was 57%, according to a large post-election survey by YouGov, a pollster.
在這次事件中，工黨的年輕粉絲超越了他們自己：根據一家民意調查站YouGov選舉后大型的民意調查，18到24歲這個年齡段人的投票率占57%。
That is 14 percentage points greater than in 2015.
這比2015年多了14個百分點。
Age is now the main determining factor affecting party choice.
現在，年齡已經成為政黨選擇的主要決定因素。
The “phenomenal” generational divide has never before been so stark, according to John Curtice of NatCen Social Research.
根據英國國家社會研究中心的John Curtice所說，代溝現象從來沒有像現在這么突出。
Mr Corbyn pulled in young people in droves by promising free university tuition.
Corbyn先生通過承諾大學免學費來拉攏年輕人。
Labour won 43 of the 60 constituencies where full-time students make up 15% or more of the adult population, five of which it gained from the Tories.
工黨贏得了60個選區中的43個，其中全日制學生占成年人口的15%或更多，其中有5個得自保守黨。
Overall, turnout rose by 2.5 points to 68.7%, the highest since 1997.
總體來說，投票率上升了2.5個百分點到達68.7%，是自1997年以來的最高點。
Seat-by-seat analysis shows that it increased most in areas with large populations of well-educated under-45s; areas that are ethnically diverse; and areas that voted to remain in the European Union last year.
Seat-by-seat分析顯示：這現象（投票率上升）在那些受過良好教育的45歲以下的大人口地區，那些多民族地區和去年投票留在歐盟的地區最為明顯。
That probably cost the Conservatives.
這可能會讓保守黨付出代價。
Turnout in pro-EU London, where they lost six seats, increased by five points to surpass 70% for the first time since 1992.
在支持歐盟的倫敦，他們失去了6個席位，在1992年以來第一次增長了5個百分點，首次超過了70%。
Brexit paid some dividends to the Tories.
英國脫歐支付股息給保守黨。
In 2015 the UK Independence Party won 12.6% of the vote with an anti-EU message.
2015，英國獨立黨以反對歐盟的信息贏得了12.6%的選票。
With the referendum won, its vote collapsed.
隨著全民公決的勝利，它的支持率驟跌。
About 60% of those who voted for UKIP in 2015 defected to the Conservatives, according to a post-election survey by Lord Ashcroft.
在2015年投奔了保守黨中大約有60%的人投票贊成獨立黨，根據選舉后的阿什克羅夫特勛爵的調查。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
