How To Vote - UK General Election 2015

Initial preference
		51%
		36%
		13%

		Result of How To Vote
34%
31%
34%

		Overall result of How To Vote
Conservative	34%
Labour	31%
Lib Dems	34%

How To Vote summary statistics

Welcome to the How To Vote summary pages. Here you can find out which policies are vote winners for each party, and how they fit with the opinions of their natural supporters. This page is generated live on each view - check back as the campaign progresses to see how the parties are doing.

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

This table shows you which policy areas are considered most important overall. It also tells you which areas are most important to supporters of the different parties:

Importance of each policy area
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		Importance by initial party preference
Section	Overall importance	Conservative	Labour	Lib Dem	No preference
Taxes and Money	21%	15%	13%	11%	227%
Health and Healthcare	19%	12%	12%	11%	202%
Society	16%	11%	12%	13%	192%
The EU and Immigration	16%	10%	9%	10%	190%
Education	12%	6%	7%	7%	131%
The Environment	10%	5%	6%	9%	111%
Working Life	10%	6%	7%	7%	109%
Crime and Punishment	8%	6%	5%	5%	90%
Benefits	8%	5%	4%	3%	90%
Democracy and Devolution	8%	6%	5%	7%	84%
Housing and Development	7%	5%	5%	4%	87%
Transport	7%	5%	5%	5%	78%
Defence	7%	7%	5%	4%	88%

The percentage breakdown shows how many times at least one question in a section was answered out of all people taking the How To Vote quiz. Click on column headings to re-sort.

This table tells you which policy areas are vote winners for the parties. It also shows you which are working well with their supporters:

Popularity of each party by section
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		Results by initial party preference
Section	Overall result	Conservative	Labour	Lib Dem	No preference
Taxes and Money	47% - 19% - 34%	67% - 9% - 24%	36% - 32% - 32%	40% - 13% - 47%	42% - 20% - 38%
Health and Healthcare	38% - 42% - 20%	65% - 25% - 10%	22% - 51% - 27%	36% - 42% - 22%	33% - 46% - 21%
Society	57% - 12% - 31%	79% - 11% - 10%	33% - 13% - 54%	45% - 12% - 43%	58% - 12% - 30%
The EU and Immigration	56% - 28% - 16%	70% - 22% - 8%	39% - 34% - 27%	36% - 36% - 28%	56% - 29% - 15%
Education	34% - 32% - 34%	50% - 30% - 20%	25% - 30% - 45%	26% - 44% - 30%	32% - 33% - 35%
The Environment	45% - 25% - 30%	58% - 13% - 29%	36% - 39% - 25%	55% - 19% - 26%	46% - 21% - 33%
Working Life	44% - 38% - 18%	60% - 27% - 13%	36% - 47% - 17%	45% - 39% - 16%	41% - 39% - 20%
Crime and Punishment	45% - 25% - 30%	64% - 20% - 16%	33% - 22% - 45%	37% - 18% - 45%	37% - 30% - 33%
Benefits	34% - 39% - 27%	54% - 18% - 28%	10% - 64% - 26%	9% - 50% - 41%	37% - 39% - 24%
Democracy and Devolution	54% - 17% - 29%	85% - 6% - 9%	29% - 25% - 46%	28% - 16% - 56%	48% - 22% - 30%
Housing and Development	51% - 17% - 32%	60% - 14% - 26%	44% - 20% - 36%	30% - 23% - 47%	54% - 15% - 31%
Transport	44% - 7% - 49%	54% - 15% - 31%	41% - 5% - 54%	35% - 0% - 65%	44% - 4% - 52%
Defence	76% - 7% - 17%	91% - 2% - 7%	52% - 17% - 31%	44% - 20% - 36%	76% - 6% - 18%

The width of the blue, yellow and red bars corresponds to the percentage of How To Vote results in favour of each party per section (Conservative, Lib Dem and Labour respectively) - you can also hide the actual percentage values if you choose.

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

Links to official party manifestos:
Conservative manifesto - Labour manifesto - Liberal Democrats manifesto
UK Independence Party manifesto - Green Party manifesto

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