Ever been surprised by how you've voted? Why?

I was always told growing up that I'd vote for Labour and it wouldn't matter because England would vote in the Tories. I'm now 20, I've voted in a referendum in which I went against the Labour party's wish, voted in two elections in which I voted SNP and in May I will vote SNP again for the council elections. With Scottish Labour being a Blairite disgrace of a party and being anti-independence I've not once voted for the party that I always assumed I would.

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Niburu · 51-55, M

I was born and raised in New York state in the US, so as you can imagine how left leaning my early voting went.
It was not till I moved out of the state that I actually even heard the other side.
Theses days I mostly side with the Libertarians ideas of small government, except I believe some social programs should remain and even expanded.