Why do we always vote on a Thursday in the U.K.?

Answer 1

It is tradition, we've voted on Thursday's for close to 100 years.

Europe vote on a Sunday in most countries, so the EU would like the UK to change to a Sunday, given that we have difficulty shopping on a Sunday because of the church of england saying it's their holy day, I cannot see voting on a Sunday while we've got a religious Prime Minster.

Answer 2

In the United Kingdom, all general elections since 1935 have been held on a Thursday, and this has become a tradition, although not a requirement of the law — which only states that an election may be held on any day "except Saturdays, Sundays, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, bank holidays in any part of the United Kingdom and any day appointed for public thanksgiving and mourning". An explanation sometimes given for the choice of Thursday as polling day is that it was, in most towns, the traditional market day, although it has also been observed that the choice has practical advantages — with the outcome of the election being known by Friday, the new or continuing administration then has the weekend to organize itself in preparation for the "government shop opening for business" on Monday, the first day of the new week following the election.

Additionally, local elections are usually held on the first Thursday in May.

The Thursday before Easter is also known as Maundy Thursday or Sheer Thursday in the United Kingdom, traditionally a day of cleaning and giving out Maundy money.

Answer 3

Traditionally Friday is payday. Hold the election on a Thursday and:
(i) by Monday the drunken rabble will have forgotten what they voted for.
(ii) the misers will be looking for the party that promised the most
(iii) the government has a full weekend to think up excuses for not doing all the things they promosed in order to get you to vote for them
(iv) if the whole thing is a fiasco they don't want street riots breaking out on Friday (a bitter lesson learned in the north of Ireland) because they tend to last the whole week end.

Answer 4

Why not? Have you got a problem with Thursdays? Thursday is an excellent day - much better than Monday for example.

Answer 5

Daaaamn didnt know they earned so much. Heh maybe we should all get into politics, that would lower the wage scale and drive most of the parasites out. Leaving the people who actually care to do the job and earn the money they deserve.

Sorry for not answering the question (I dont know why either).

Answer 6

Because noone wants to bother on a Friday, start of the weekend, or A Monday when people are fed up because the weekend is over.

Answer 7

Possibly so the government in power has the weekend to cook up the answers it wants you to have to your questions? or to gauge the results of the polls before returning to work Monday.

Answer 8

They hold them on a Thursday because the lazy Politicians don"t work on Fridays so they can stay up all night on election day stuffing themselves with food and boozing and not having to worry about going to work [if you can call it work] the next day.

£60,000+ p/a plus £150,000 - £180,000 expenses {not bad eh?]
I have to pay my own expenses, no free ride for me.

Still we all have to work hard to pay their ******* salaries.

Answer 9

Supposed to be tradition, stuff tradition it's more convenient for the government not us, if it was up to us we'd have it on a Friday so we then get to finish work early for the weekend.

Answer 10

I wish i knew