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...Westminster-style parliamentary system? When you personally vote, is your decision based more on candidate for the local riding for whom you're directly voting, or for the party leadership, to whom you're ultimately giving the nod to form a government? If it's a split, which direction do you lean more towards?

I'm honestly curious about this. Being an American, I never had to make that decision, as in our system, one can easily split his vote between the Congressman and the Presidency.
Hit: I appreciate your answer, but it wasn't really what I was asking about. What I meant was that in your system, one doesn't actually vote for Mr. Cameron for example, but rather for the Tory running in your local riding. My question was meant more like, "What if you really want to see a Tory government, but the local Conservative is a waste of DNA?"
 
My decision is always based on the specific candidates for whom I'm voting. Of course in practice, most candidates tend to follow the party line, so the distinction between voting for the local member and voting for the partly leadership is not so well defined.
 
Many UK citizens habitually vote for the same party at every election on the grounds that party was supported by their family over the years. Some of us vote for the party who policy we currently agree with. Localised elections attract a degree of personal loyalty to the candidate to some extent. Many people, such as myself, vote on tactical lines. This time I shall vote for the candidate of which ever party has the best chance of beating the Conservative party's candidate.
 
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