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How Remain voters switched in the 2017 General Election
1st August 2017
Data from the British Election Study is reported here in this article from Ed Fieldhouse and Chris Prosser at the University of Manchester.
It finds that Labour, which was already the most popular party in 2015 among those who voted Remain in 2016, scooped the lion's share of votes in June 2017.
Lots more information in the article about the shifting sands of voting intentions during the campaign itself.
For the first time we know how Remain voters switched party at the general election https://t.co/OLutv5JtzZ pic.twitter.com/bNhkT5h6pY
— BBC News Graphics (@BBCNewsGraphics) August 1, 2017
More links to the voting research published today by the British Election Study
6 graphs from the British Election Study (@BESResearch) that help explain the election result https://t.co/ZMMLiOfLNR pic.twitter.com/3vQRr7BmAZ
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) August 1, 2017
Word cloud of 'Most Important Issue' answers from the election campaign wave of the new @BESResearch data: https://t.co/bGmX56lkVa pic.twitter.com/8cqkV4myiL
— Chris Prosser (@caprosser) August 1, 2017
And this from British Election Study is why Labour will end up backing continued membership of EU single market & customs union, or a proxy pic.twitter.com/MsL3tvp9gw
— Robert Peston (@Peston) August 1, 2017
Shorter British Election Study: people who say they want to leave the EU mean it
— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) August 1, 2017
The 2017 election saw the second highest individual vote volatility since 1964 @BESResearch. pic.twitter.com/c5hSgbQOgN
— Jon Mellon (@jon_mellon) August 1, 2017
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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