If conservative voters stayed at home and didn’t vote conservative, then by definition they are not conservative voters?I read tons of literature on this phenomenon, quick search brought up this. weak but indicative.
Swing from Tories to Labour was because Conservative voters stayed at home, party chair says
Conservative losses in Thursday’s (20 July) by elections were because Tory voters stayed at home, Greg Hands has said.The Tory party chairman spoke to TalkTV after his party lost two safe seats as Labour gained Selby and Ainsty and the Liberal Democrats won in Somerton and Frome.A 24 per cent...politic-news.space