Labour are currently the largest recipients of tactical voting
Labour are currently the largest recipient of tactical voting via @IpsosMORI pic.twitter.com/PcWPbxY7El
— TSE (@TSEofPB) February 15, 2015
As part of this month’s Ipsos-Mori political monitor found that 22% of Lab voters saying they do so to keep another party out, rather than because the party represents their views. For the Tories the figure is 10%, for UKIP it is 9%and the Liberal Democrat’s it is 7%.
Ipsos-More note “In previous years, the Liberal Democrats were most likely to say they chose their vote to keep another party out (16% of Liberal Democrats said so in May 2010, compared with eight percent each for the Conservatives and Labour).”
In theory, this level of tactical voting should help Labour outperform the Tories in May, particularly with the unprecedented amount of constituency specific polling we’ve had in the parliament.
On preferred coalition partners.
Con voters prefer a coalition with Lib Dems than UKIP. Lab voters prefer an SNP coaltion than a Lib Dem one pic.twitter.com/vYs5nWxfqe
— TSE (@TSEofPB) February 15, 2015
UKIP voters prefer a Tory coalition than a Lab one, SNP say the opposite via @IpsosMORI pic.twitter.com/NXxfTihsXt
— TSE (@TSEofPB) February 15, 2015
The full data tables are available here.