The British Election Study

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Britain’s oldest social survey. We provide non-partisan and independent data and research on elections in Britain.

Graph showing percentage of 2024 Labour voters who thought that Labour would do a good job on the economy, immigration, and the NHS before the election, and the percentage who thought that they have done a good job since. In short, Labour voters are disappointed on all three areas.
Four graphs showing vote intention among 2024 Labour voters by immigration preferences (top-left), defence spending (top-right), taxation preferences (bottom-left), and welfare spending support (bottom-right). In short, each graph shows that Labour has lost a greater number of voters who support a 'left-liberal' position, while also losing the very few 'right-conservative' voters that they had at a higher rate.
Graph showing how much different types of 2024 Labour voter like each of the major parties in Britain. We look at Labour voters who still support Labour in 2025, Labour voters who moved to indecision, and Labour voters who have moved to a left-liberal party. The biggest finding is that Labour to undecided voters like left-liberal parties like the Liberal Democrats, Greens, and Plaid Cymru a lot more than they like Reform or the Conservatives.
Alluvial plot showing the flow of support from vote in the 2024 UK General Election to vote intention in 2025 Wave 30 of the British Election Study Internet Panel.
Alluvial plot showing the flow of support from vote in the 2024 UK General Election to vote intention in the 2025 Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel.
Graph showing the decline in support between a post-election wave and the subsequent wave of the British Election Study Internet Panel, measured by mean like/dislike ratings. The drop in the mean like/dislike ratings for Labour is much larger than that for the Conservatives in 2015, 2017, or 2019.
Image of switching between Liberal Democrats and Labour. Liberal Democrats gain most in places where they were the main competition to the Conservatives.