Rosette (politics)

Jack Straw, a British politician, campaigning wearing a red rosette, showing membership of the Labour Party.

In politics, a rosette is a coloured fabric decoration worn by political candidates to identify them in many countries. The rosette, worn on the chest or suit jacket, will show the colours of the political party that the candidate represents.

British politics

In British politics, rosettes (or sometimes flowers and ties) are often worn by candidates. As of 2015, the only people allowed to wear a rosette at a polling station are candidates and their election agents.[1]

In the U.K., despite its relatively long-lasting set of major parties, colours worn by parties have not always been constant.[2]

In some areas of the U.K., non-standard colours were worn up to around the 1970s as a local tradition. This may have been for a variety of reasons, such as association of colours with leading families of the area and then the political parties they supported.[3]

Political parties generally have in recent years tended to standardise on the colours used nationally, especially after the arrival of colour television.

See also

References

  1. ↑ de Castella, Tom; Heyden, Tom. "Election 2015: What CAN'T you do in a polling station?". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Why is the Conservative Party blue?". BBC Magazine. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Kelly, Jon. "The seats where Tories weren’t blue and Labour wasn’t red". BBC News. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
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