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 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

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 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 49% 51% 47% 44% 47%
Health 40% 38% 40% 37% 40%
Education 37% 36% 35% 36% 37%
Asylum and Immigration 35% 36% 30% 30% 34%
Crime and Punishment 30% 32% 27% 28% 30%
Society 26% 25% 23% 26% 26%
Europe and the World 25% 25% 20% 23% 23%
Defence 23% 25% 22% 23% 23%
Work and companies 23% 23% 20% 22% 23%
The Environment 23% 22% 21% 25% 23%
Economic Recovery 22% 22% 19% 19% 19%
Housing and Development 22% 22% 20% 21% 22%
Civil Liberties 22% 21% 21% 23% 22%
Transport 22% 21% 20% 23% 22%
Local issues 20% 19% 18% 20% 20%
Democracy and Government 19% 19% 17% 21% 19%
Devolution 13% 13% 11% 13% 12%

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
48% - 28% - 24%
67% - 19% - 14%
32% - 31% - 37%
41% - 33% - 26%
49% - 28% - 23%
Health
35% - 12% - 53%
39% - 16% - 45%
31% - 12% - 57%
35% - 10% - 55%
35% - 12% - 53%
Education
35% - 51% - 14%
43% - 44% - 13%
32% - 49% - 19%
28% - 59% - 13%
36% - 50% - 14%
Asylum and Immigration
51% - 28% - 21%
66% - 12% - 22%
45% - 34% - 21%
33% - 50% - 17%
52% - 27% - 21%
Crime and Punishment
36% - 53% - 11%
47% - 44% - 9%
30% - 54% - 16%
26% - 64% - 10%
37% - 52% - 11%
Society
29% - 14% - 57%
44% - 12% - 44%
21% - 14% - 65%
24% - 17% - 59%
28% - 15% - 57%
Europe and the World
67% - 13% - 20%
86% - 7% - 7%
50% - 15% - 35%
49% - 19% - 32%
70% - 13% - 17%
Defence
27% - 45% - 28%
47% - 23% - 30%
21% - 47% - 32%
13% - 69% - 18%
28% - 43% - 29%
Work and companies
25% - 56% - 19%
32% - 45% - 23%
21% - 60% - 19%
22% - 64% - 14%
24% - 57% - 19%
The Environment
23% - 54% - 23%
37% - 38% - 25%
19% - 50% - 31%
18% - 59% - 23%
23% - 56% - 21%
Economic Recovery
32% - 47% - 21%
47% - 32% - 21%
24% - 50% - 26%
23% - 58% - 19%
32% - 47% - 21%
Housing and Development
60% - 31% - 9%
69% - 25% - 6%
53% - 32% - 15%
55% - 35% - 10%
61% - 31% - 8%
Civil Liberties
29% - 49% - 22%
30% - 48% - 22%
27% - 49% - 24%
30% - 53% - 17%
30% - 47% - 23%
Transport
56% - 36% - 8%
62% - 29% - 9%
50% - 41% - 9%
49% - 47% - 4%
57% - 35% - 8%
Local issues
75% - 21% - 4%
73% - 22% - 5%
71% - 24% - 5%
77% - 19% - 4%
76% - 20% - 4%
Democracy and Government
62% - 27% - 11%
72% - 21% - 7%
54% - 24% - 22%
50% - 39% - 11%
65% - 25% - 10%
Devolution
73% - 12% - 15%
81% - 8% - 11%
63% - 16% - 21%
64% - 19% - 17%
75% - 11% - 14%

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.

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