When Did You Decide How To Vote?
Data is taken from post-election polls: the base in each case is those who said they had voted
Q When did you decide which party to vote for? Was it before the campaign began, in the first week of the campaign, around the middle, within the last week, or within the last 24 hours?
All who voted in the General Election
|
10
April
1992
|
14-19
June
2001
|
5-10
May
2005
|
12-13
May
2010 |
| |
% |
% |
% |
% |
Base
|
876
|
1,349 |
1,399 |
745 |
| Before the campaign began |
63
|
74
|
66 |
57 |
| In the first week |
6
|
4
|
5 |
5 |
| Around the middle |
11
|
8
|
10 |
11 |
| Within the last week |
13
|
7
|
9 |
14 |
| Within the last 24 hours |
8
|
7
|
10 |
14 |
| Don't know |
n/a
|
n/a
|
* |
* |
Conservative voters
|
10
April
1992
|
14-19
June
2001
|
5-10
May
2005
|
12-13
May
2010 |
| |
% |
% |
% |
% |
| Before the campaign began |
72
|
79
|
75
|
62
|
| In the first week |
4
|
2
|
4
|
5
|
| Around the middle |
8
|
6
|
7
|
10
|
| Within the last week |
12
|
5
|
4
|
11
|
| Within the last 24 hours |
4
|
7
|
10
|
12
|
| Don't know |
n/a
|
n/a
|
0
|
0
|
Labour voters
|
10
April
1992
|
14-19
June
2001
|
5-10
May
2005
|
12-13
May
2010 |
| |
% |
% |
% |
% |
| Before the campaign began |
67
|
80
|
73
|
71 |
| In the first week |
6
|
4
|
4
|
3 |
| Around the middle |
10
|
7
|
7
|
5 |
| Within the last week |
10
|
4
|
7
|
10 |
| Within the last 24 hours |
7
|
4
|
8
|
10 |
| Don't know |
n/a
|
n/a
|
*
|
* |
Liberal Democrat voters
|
10
April
1992
|
14-19
June
2001
|
5-10
May
2005
|
12-13
May
2010 |
| |
% |
% |
% |
% |
| Before the campaign began |
42
|
59
|
51
|
36 |
| In the first week |
9
|
4
|
7
|
5 |
| Around the middle |
19
|
14
|
15
|
18 |
| Within the last week |
19
|
13
|
15
|
20 |
| Within the last 24 hours |
12
|
10
|
12
|
21 |
| Don't know |
n/a
|
n/a
|
0
|
1 |
|