/r/UKPolitics Survey – Feb 2021

Back in Feburary, I posted a survey on /r/UKPolitics, and got just under 1500 responses, below is the data broken down.

How did you vote in the 2019 GE?


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If there were a GE tomorrow, how would you vote?

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Next I looked at how voters have moved in and out of Labour.

Firstly, I looked at people who had voted for Labour in 2019, and examined how they would vote tomorrow:



On the reverse side, looking at people who would vote Labour in a GE tomorrow, seeing how they had voted in 2019:

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How would you rate Boris Johnson’s performance during the pandemic?

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How would you rate Matt Hancock’s performance during the pandemic?

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How would you rate Rishi Sunak’s performance during the pandemic?

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In the next section, people were given a variety of statements, and rated them from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly disgree)

I have obeyed all the Covid rules


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Fake news is more prevalent for people on the other side of the political divide from me

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If there there is another wave of covid in the autumn, we should do another national lockdown

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Britain’s higher death rate from Covid is probably due to methods of counting deaths, rather than actually being worse

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The vaccine situation made me think less favourably of the EU

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Independence would financially be terrible for Scotland in the short to medium term

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If I were able to choose, I would stop GB News from being established

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‘Woke-ism’ presents serious problems for the UK

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Next, people were given a list of topics (China; Economically recovering from covid; Socially recovering from covid (eg mental health, missed cancer appointments, education); A potentially independent Scotland; Brexit; Global warming; Fake news), and asked to pick the two which represented the most serious problem for the UK in the next 10 years.

The below chart has been weighted so that first choices have double the score of second choices

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People were given the question below, and were to tick all that apply

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