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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 11th August
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The charts below show the popularity of different political parties in a country before and after the general election. The election was won by the Conservative Party and they formed a government with the Liberal Democrats.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER: –
Analysis of the 3 pie-charts depicting electoral support for four main political parties in just over a year, dating from one month before the election, shows the electoral support fluctuated for all parties to a greater or lesser extent, throughout the given period.
The Conservatives who had a majority for the first 7 months, accounted for between nearly a half to well over a third of voters; support in the entire period. However, support for the Conservatives declined to over a third, 12 months after the election.
Another party that showed little fluctuation in electoral support in the initial 7-month period was the Green party. During this period the party maintained a constant 10% of electoral support. However this dropped by 50% to only 5%, 12 months after the election.
The only party to see significant gains in voters’ support over the 13-month period was the Labour party. Maintaining around quarter of the electoral vote from one month before the election, rising to over a third,12 months after the election.
The greatest fluctuation occurred in the number of the electorate who were ‘undecided’. Initially accounting for only 4% of the electorate, this figure increased to a quarter, 12 months after the election.
It would seen from the figures that support for the Lib-Dem/Conservative coalition declined after the election and numbers of ‘undecided’ voters increased possibly due to dissatisfaction with the government in power.
