How To Vote - UK general election 2010

The UK general election was on May 6th 2010

		Result of How To Vote
Conservative	41%
Labour	19%
Lib Dems	41%

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How To Vote question summary statistics
Other statistics pages: By result - By section - By policy/answer

On this page you can find out which questions are ranked as most important. There are two tables - the first ranks each question by the percentage of people who answered it, whilst the second ranks questions by how frequently the 'key issue' box was ticked.

The 2010 How To Vote quiz has so far been completed over 31600 times (and over 25700 times since I reset the questions set on 21st April)

This table reveals how frequently each question has been answered.

Most frequently-answered questions
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Most-answered by initial party preference

Question on Overall Conservative Labour Lib Dem No preference

Tax on earnings 47% 50% 46% 44% 46%
Married tax breaks 43% 47% 44% 41% 43%
Inheritance tax 43% 47% 43% 40% 43%
Child Trust Funds 41% 46% 42% 39% 41%
Reforming GP healthcare 39% 38% 40% 37% 40%
Local GPs 37% 36% 38% 35% 38%
Compulsory education 36% 35% 35% 35% 36%
Higher Education numbers 36% 35% 34% 35% 36%
Private healthcare 35% 35% 35% 34% 36%
Improving schools 35% 34% 34% 35% 36%
Education policies 35% 34% 34% 35% 36%
English tests for immigrants 35% 37% 31% 32% 36%
Online education policies 35% 34% 33% 34% 35%
Tuition fees 34% 33% 33% 33% 34%
EU migration 33% 36% 29% 30% 34%
Immigration policy 32% 37% 27% 29% 33%
Citizenship for long-term illegal immigrants 31% 35% 27% 28% 31%
Running schools 30% 29% 29% 30% 31%
Crime and punishment 29% 32% 25% 28% 29%
Local healthcare priorities 28% 28% 31% 28% 28%
Police on the streets 28% 31% 25% 26% 28%
Short prison sentences 27% 30% 24% 26% 27%
Unemployment benefit 25% 25% 22% 25% 25%
Improving society 25% 25% 22% 25% 25%
Join the Euro 23% 25% 20% 23% 23%
EU referendum 22% 24% 20% 23% 22%
Environment policies 22% 21% 20% 24% 22%
Advertising to children 22% 22% 20% 23% 22%
Transport policy 21% 21% 19% 23% 21%
Armed forces 21% 23% 20% 21% 21%
Maternity leave 21% 20% 19% 21% 21%
Air travel 20% 19% 19% 23% 20%
Making police accountable 20% 24% 18% 20% 20%
Internet traffic logging 20% 20% 19% 22% 20%
UK nuclear weapons 20% 22% 19% 21% 20%
Flexible working 20% 19% 19% 19% 21%
Regain some control from EU 20% 23% 18% 20% 20%
Stamp Duty 20% 20% 18% 19% 20%
Hunting with dogs 19% 19% 19% 21% 19%
Local planning policy 19% 20% 18% 18% 19%
Licensing law 19% 19% 18% 19% 19%
CCTV 19% 19% 17% 20% 19%
Long-term care of the elderly 19% 19% 18% 20% 19%
Rail expansion 19% 18% 17% 21% 19%
Financial supervision 19% 22% 18% 18% 18%
Mansion tax 19% 19% 18% 19% 18%
ID cards 19% 19% 17% 20% 18%
Integrated European defence 18% 21% 18% 19% 18%
DNA database 18% 18% 17% 20% 18%
Nuclear power 18% 18% 17% 21% 18%
Road maintenance 18% 19% 16% 20% 18%
Forced sale of the elderly's houses 18% 20% 16% 18% 18%
Voting age 18% 18% 17% 20% 18%
Post Office Bank 18% 20% 19% 18% 18%
Coastal right to roam 18% 17% 17% 19% 18%
Council tax 18% 18% 17% 17% 18%
Home Information Packs 17% 19% 16% 16% 18%
Right to debate in parliament 17% 17% 16% 19% 16%
Take-over local amenities 17% 16% 16% 18% 17%
Extraordinary rendition 16% 17% 16% 18% 16%
Electoral system 16% 16% 15% 19% 15%
Public sector pay 16% 18% 14% 15% 16%
Local referenda 15% 15% 14% 15% 15%
Company take-overs 15% 16% 14% 15% 15%
Breaking-up the banks 14% 18% 15% 15% 13%
General election voting system 14% 15% 14% 18% 13%
UK written constitution 14% 17% 12% 14% 14%
Political donations 13% 14% 13% 16% 13%
Anonymous job applications 13% 14% 13% 13% 13%
Lobbying 13% 13% 13% 16% 12%
Rail franchises 13% 14% 11% 13% 12%
Number of MPs 12% 14% 11% 13% 12%
Elected mayors 12% 12% 12% 13% 12%
Quangos 12% 13% 11% 14% 11%
West Lothian question 11% 13% 11% 12% 11%
Scottish Parliament 10% 11% 9% 11% 9%
Welsh Assembly 9% 9% 8% 10% 8%
Legislative double-jobbing 8% 10% 8% 9% 8%

This percentage breakdown shows how many times a question was answered (either by choosing from a multi-choise option or by answering at least one of the agree/disagree options), out of all the people taking the How To Vote quiz or expressing the relevant initial preference. Click on column headings to re-sort.

This table shows you how often each question is considered a 'key issue'. This provides an indication of which particular issues are most important to people. This table also tells you which questions are most important to supporters of the different parties:

Questions marked as Key Issues
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Key Issues by initial party preference

Question on Overall Conservative Labour Lib Dem No preference

Tax on earnings 3.4% 4.2% 4.0% 4.4% 2.8%
Immigration policy 2.6% 3.8% 2.6% 2.1% 2.5%
English tests for immigrants 2.1% 3.2% 1.8% 1.9% 2.0%
Unemployment benefit 2.0% 2.9% 1.6% 2.1% 1.9%
Higher Education numbers 1.9% 1.8% 2.2% 2.4% 1.7%
Inheritance tax 1.8% 2.5% 2.5% 1.7% 1.6%
EU migration 1.7% 2.5% 1.7% 1.4% 1.6%
Join the Euro 1.6% 2.9% 1.3% 1.5% 1.4%
Tuition fees 1.4% 0.9% 1.9% 2.3% 1.2%
Improving schools 1.4% 1.2% 1.7% 1.8% 1.3%
Citizenship for long-term illegal immigrants 1.3% 2.0% 1.2% 1.0% 1.3%
Improving society 1.2% 1.2% 1.1% 1.5% 1.2%
Married tax breaks 1.2% 1.6% 1.8% 1.4% 1.0%
Reforming GP healthcare 1.1% 1.0% 1.6% 1.2% 1.1%
Crime and punishment 1.1% 1.6% 0.9% 1.3% 1.0%
Education policies 1.1% 1.4% 1.2% 1.3% 0.9%
UK nuclear weapons 1.1% 1.4% 1.0% 1.4% 0.9%
Compulsory education 1.1% 1.0% 1.3% 1.3% 1.0%
Local GPs 1.1% 1.1% 1.4% 1.1% 1.0%
ID cards 1.0% 1.1% 0.9% 1.8% 0.9%
Private healthcare 1.0% 1.2% 1.5% 0.9% 1.0%
Regain some control from EU 0.9% 1.9% 0.8% 0.7% 0.7%
EU referendum 0.8% 1.3% 0.9% 0.9% 0.7%
Internet traffic logging 0.8% 0.9% 0.7% 1.2% 0.7%
Child Trust Funds 0.8% 0.8% 1.6% 0.6% 0.7%
Nuclear power 0.8% 1.2% 0.9% 1.2% 0.6%
General election voting system 0.8% 0.7% 0.6% 1.9% 0.5%
Police on the streets 0.7% 1.0% 0.7% 0.6% 0.7%
Short prison sentences 0.7% 0.8% 0.5% 0.9% 0.6%
Hunting with dogs 0.7% 0.7% 0.9% 1.0% 0.5%
DNA database 0.7% 0.6% 0.7% 0.9% 0.6%
Transport policy 0.6% 0.7% 0.6% 1.1% 0.5%
Online education policies 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 1.1% 0.6%
Environment policies 0.6% 0.5% 0.6% 1.0% 0.6%
Rail expansion 0.6% 0.5% 0.7% 1.0% 0.5%
Electoral system 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 1.2% 0.5%
Road maintenance 0.6% 0.9% 0.4% 0.7% 0.5%
Public sector pay 0.6% 0.8% 0.7% 0.5% 0.5%
Breaking-up the banks 0.6% 0.6% 0.8% 0.7% 0.5%
Air travel 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.7% 0.5%
Armed forces 0.5% 0.8% 0.7% 0.7% 0.4%
Extraordinary rendition 0.5% 0.3% 0.6% 0.9% 0.4%
Forced sale of the elderly's houses 0.5% 0.6% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5%
Local healthcare priorities 0.5% 0.3% 0.9% 0.5% 0.5%
CCTV 0.5% 0.6% 0.2% 0.6% 0.4%
Lobbying 0.5% 0.5% 0.3% 0.8% 0.4%
Advertising to children 0.5% 0.5% 0.6% 0.8% 0.4%
Financial supervision 0.5% 0.5% 0.6% 0.4% 0.5%
Running schools 0.4% 0.3% 0.6% 0.6% 0.4%
Integrated European defence 0.4% 0.7% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4%
Maternity leave 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.7% 0.4%
Local planning policy 0.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.6% 0.4%
Right to debate in parliament 0.4% 0.6% 0.2% 0.7% 0.4%
Flexible working 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 0.6% 0.4%
Council tax 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.6% 0.4%
UK written constitution 0.4% 0.7% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4%
Voting age 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 0.7% 0.3%
Home Information Packs 0.4% 0.7% 0.3% 0.4% 0.3%
Mansion tax 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3%
Stamp Duty 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.5% 0.3%
Making police accountable 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3%
Licensing law 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 0.3%
Long-term care of the elderly 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3%
West Lothian question 0.3% 0.7% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3%
Take-over local amenities 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3%
Local referenda 0.2% 0.1% 0.3% 0.4% 0.2%
Post Office Bank 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2%
Coastal right to roam 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.2%
Anonymous job applications 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
Scottish Parliament 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2%
Number of MPs 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2%
Political donations 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2%
Quangos 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
Company take-overs 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
Rail franchises 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
Elected mayors 0.1% 0.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
Legislative double-jobbing 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
Welsh Assembly 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%

This percentage breakdown shows how many times a question was chosen as a 'key issue' by ticking the box next to it, out of all the people taking the How To Vote quiz or expressing the relevant initial preference. Click on column headings to re-sort.

Other statistics pages: By result - By section - By policy/answer

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