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 31700 times (and over 25800 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% 47%
Inheritance tax 43% 47% 43% 40% 43%
Married tax breaks 43% 47% 44% 41% 43%
Child Trust Funds 41% 46% 42% 39% 41%
Reforming GP healthcare 39% 38% 40% 37% 40%
English tests for immigrants 35% 37% 31% 32% 36%
Immigration policy 32% 37% 27% 29% 33%
EU migration 33% 36% 29% 30% 34%
Local GPs 37% 36% 38% 35% 38%
Private healthcare 35% 35% 35% 34% 36%
Compulsory education 36% 35% 35% 35% 36%
Higher Education numbers 36% 35% 34% 35% 36%
Citizenship for long-term illegal immigrants 31% 35% 27% 28% 31%
Improving schools 35% 34% 34% 35% 36%
Education policies 35% 34% 34% 35% 36%
Online education policies 35% 34% 33% 34% 35%
Tuition fees 34% 33% 33% 33% 34%
Crime and punishment 29% 32% 25% 28% 30%
Police on the streets 28% 31% 25% 26% 28%
Short prison sentences 27% 30% 24% 26% 27%
Running schools 30% 29% 29% 30% 31%
Local healthcare priorities 28% 28% 31% 28% 28%
Unemployment benefit 25% 25% 22% 25% 25%
Join the Euro 23% 25% 20% 23% 23%
Improving society 25% 25% 22% 25% 25%
EU referendum 22% 24% 20% 23% 22%
Making police accountable 20% 24% 18% 20% 20%
Armed forces 21% 23% 20% 21% 21%
Regain some control from EU 20% 23% 18% 20% 20%
Financial supervision 19% 22% 18% 18% 18%
UK nuclear weapons 20% 22% 20% 21% 20%
Advertising to children 22% 22% 20% 23% 22%
Integrated European defence 19% 21% 18% 19% 18%
Transport policy 21% 21% 19% 23% 21%
Environment policies 22% 21% 20% 24% 22%
Stamp Duty 20% 20% 18% 19% 20%
Internet traffic logging 20% 20% 19% 22% 20%
Maternity leave 21% 20% 19% 21% 21%
Post Office Bank 18% 20% 19% 18% 18%
Local planning policy 19% 20% 18% 18% 19%
Forced sale of the elderly's houses 18% 20% 16% 18% 18%
Air travel 21% 19% 19% 23% 20%
Flexible working 20% 19% 19% 19% 21%
Home Information Packs 17% 19% 16% 16% 18%
Hunting with dogs 19% 19% 19% 21% 19%
Mansion tax 19% 19% 18% 19% 18%
Road maintenance 18% 19% 16% 20% 18%
CCTV 19% 19% 18% 20% 19%
ID cards 19% 19% 17% 20% 19%
Licensing law 19% 19% 18% 19% 19%
Long-term care of the elderly 19% 19% 18% 20% 19%
Rail expansion 19% 18% 17% 21% 19%
Council tax 18% 18% 17% 17% 18%
DNA database 18% 18% 18% 20% 18%
Breaking-up the banks 14% 18% 15% 15% 13%
Nuclear power 18% 18% 18% 21% 18%
Voting age 18% 18% 17% 20% 18%
Public sector pay 16% 18% 14% 15% 16%
Coastal right to roam 18% 17% 17% 19% 18%
Right to debate in parliament 17% 17% 16% 19% 16%
UK written constitution 14% 17% 12% 14% 14%
Extraordinary rendition 16% 17% 16% 18% 16%
Take-over local amenities 17% 16% 16% 18% 17%
Electoral system 16% 16% 15% 19% 15%
Company take-overs 15% 16% 14% 15% 15%
General election voting system 14% 15% 14% 18% 13%
Local referenda 15% 15% 14% 15% 15%
Political donations 13% 14% 13% 16% 13%
Rail franchises 13% 14% 11% 13% 12%
Anonymous job applications 13% 14% 13% 13% 13%
Number of MPs 12% 14% 11% 13% 12%
Lobbying 13% 14% 13% 16% 12%
Quangos 12% 13% 11% 14% 11%
West Lothian question 11% 13% 11% 12% 11%
Elected mayors 12% 12% 12% 13% 12%
Scottish Parliament 10% 11% 9% 11% 9%
Legislative double-jobbing 8% 10% 8% 9% 8%
Welsh Assembly 9% 9% 8% 10% 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% 2.5% 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%
Join the Euro 1.6% 2.9% 1.4% 1.5% 1.4%
EU migration 1.7% 2.5% 1.7% 1.4% 1.6%
Inheritance tax 1.8% 2.5% 2.5% 1.7% 1.6%
Citizenship for long-term illegal immigrants 1.3% 2.0% 1.2% 1.0% 1.3%
Regain some control from EU 0.9% 1.9% 0.8% 0.7% 0.7%
Higher Education numbers 1.9% 1.8% 2.3% 2.4% 1.7%
Married tax breaks 1.2% 1.6% 1.8% 1.4% 1.0%
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%
EU referendum 0.8% 1.3% 0.9% 0.9% 0.7%
Improving society 1.2% 1.2% 1.1% 1.5% 1.2%
Private healthcare 1.1% 1.2% 1.6% 0.9% 1.0%
Nuclear power 0.8% 1.2% 0.9% 1.2% 0.6%
Improving schools 1.4% 1.2% 1.7% 1.8% 1.3%
ID cards 1.1% 1.1% 0.9% 1.8% 0.9%
Local GPs 1.1% 1.1% 1.4% 1.1% 1.0%
Police on the streets 0.8% 1.0% 0.8% 0.6% 0.7%
Reforming GP healthcare 1.1% 1.0% 1.6% 1.2% 1.1%
Compulsory education 1.1% 1.0% 1.3% 1.3% 1.0%
Internet traffic logging 0.8% 1.0% 0.8% 1.2% 0.7%
Tuition fees 1.4% 0.9% 2.0% 2.3% 1.2%
Road maintenance 0.6% 0.9% 0.4% 0.7% 0.5%
Short prison sentences 0.7% 0.8% 0.5% 0.9% 0.6%
Armed forces 0.5% 0.8% 0.7% 0.7% 0.4%
Public sector pay 0.6% 0.8% 0.7% 0.5% 0.5%
Child Trust Funds 0.8% 0.8% 1.6% 0.6% 0.8%
Hunting with dogs 0.7% 0.7% 0.9% 1.0% 0.5%
UK written constitution 0.4% 0.7% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4%
General election voting system 0.8% 0.7% 0.6% 1.9% 0.5%
Home Information Packs 0.4% 0.7% 0.3% 0.4% 0.3%
Transport policy 0.6% 0.7% 0.6% 1.1% 0.5%
West Lothian question 0.3% 0.7% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3%
DNA database 0.7% 0.7% 0.8% 0.9% 0.6%
CCTV 0.5% 0.7% 0.3% 0.6% 0.4%
Integrated European defence 0.4% 0.7% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4%
Electoral system 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 1.2% 0.5%
Air travel 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.7% 0.5%
Forced sale of the elderly's houses 0.5% 0.6% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5%
Breaking-up the banks 0.6% 0.6% 0.8% 0.7% 0.5%
Right to debate in parliament 0.4% 0.6% 0.2% 0.7% 0.4%
Online education policies 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 1.1% 0.6%
Lobbying 0.5% 0.5% 0.3% 0.8% 0.4%
Environment policies 0.6% 0.5% 0.6% 1.0% 0.6%
Rail expansion 0.6% 0.5% 0.7% 1.0% 0.5%
Financial supervision 0.5% 0.5% 0.6% 0.4% 0.5%
Local planning policy 0.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.6% 0.4%
Advertising to children 0.5% 0.5% 0.6% 0.8% 0.4%
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%
Stamp Duty 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.5% 0.3%
Council tax 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.6% 0.4%
Maternity leave 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.7% 0.4%
Voting age 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 0.7% 0.3%
Scottish Parliament 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2%
Mansion tax 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3%
Extraordinary rendition 0.5% 0.3% 0.6% 0.9% 0.4%
Running schools 0.5% 0.3% 0.6% 0.6% 0.4%
Local healthcare priorities 0.5% 0.3% 0.9% 0.5% 0.5%
Anonymous job applications 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
Long-term care of the elderly 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3%
Flexible working 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 0.6% 0.4%
Political donations 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2%
Number of MPs 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2%
Take-over local amenities 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3%
Rail franchises 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
Coastal right to roam 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.2%
Quangos 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
Legislative double-jobbing 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
Welsh Assembly 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
Post Office Bank 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2%
Local referenda 0.2% 0.1% 0.3% 0.4% 0.2%
Elected mayors 0.1% 0.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
Company take-overs 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 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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