This year's general election saw a significant rise in young voters and young people actively taking an interest in politics. I was one of these young people.
Following on from our post Why Young People Don't Vote, it was clear that young people's enthusiasm and engagement was bubbling away (particularly on social media) ready to boil over in the results of the general election.
As a young person, I can only speak for myself when expressing my reasons why I chose to vote for the first time in this general election.
