1992 Sunday Times Panel - Recall Survey

Post-election reinterviews of the election panel

12 April 1992

MORI re-interviewed 934 adults aged 18+ from the original panel baseline of 1,544 adults (first recruited and interviewed on 11-12 March). All interviews were conducted by telephone on 10 April 1992 (the day after the general election). Data were weighted to match the profile of the population and in addition the week one voting intentions of those re-interviewed were weighted to match the week one voting intentions of the entire panel.

Q. Which party, if any, did you vote for at the general election yesterday? Q. (If did not vote) Which party would you have been most likely to support if you had voted?

	Voted for	Would most likely have voted for
	%	%
Conservative	37	29
Labour	34	23
Liberal Democrat	19	18
SNP/Plaid Cymru	1	1
Green	*	4
Other	1	5
Percentages exclude:
Did not vote	6	0
Undecided	n/a	15
Refused	1	0

Q. (To all who voted) At approximately what time of day did you vote yesterday?

	All	Con	Lab	Lib Dem
	%	%	%	%
Before 9 a.m.	10	9	10	10
After 9 a.m., before 12 noon	27	28	27	29
After 12 noon, before 3 p.m.	14	14	13	13
After 3 p.m., before 5 p.m.	10	11	8	13
After 5 p.m., before 7 p.m.	22	19	23	22
After 7 p.m., before 9 p.m.	14	15	15	8
After 9 p.m. (until close at 10 p.m.)	2	2	1	2
Don't know/can't recall	1	1	1	1

Q. (To all who voted) When did you decide which party to vote for?

	All	Con	Lab	Lib Dem
	%	%	%	%
Before the campaign started	63	72	67	42
First week	6	4	6	9
Around the middle	11	8	10	19
During the last week	13	12	10	19
In the last 24 hours	8	4	7	12
No answer/cannot recall	0	0	0	0

Q. (To all who voted) Which two or three issues were most important to you in helping you to decide which party to vote for at the general election?

	All	Con	Lab	Lib Dem
	%	%	%	%
NHS/health care	51	38	66	55
Education/schools	41	27	50	57
Unemployment/jobs	25	13	39	23
Tax cuts	14	25	7	9
Economy	12	16	9	11
Inflation/prices	9	16	5	6
Pensions	8	3	17	4
Defence generally	5	10	2	3
Interest rates	5	10	1	5
Poll tax	5	1	8	3
Housing	4	3	5	4
Law and order	4	3	2	2
Pollution/the environment	3	3	1	5
Others less than 3% excluded

Q. On balance, would you say you are satisfied or dissatisfied with the outcome of the election in your constituency? Q. And would you say you are satisfied or dissatisfied with the national outcome of the election?

	Constituency	National
	%	%
Satisfied	53	51
Dissatisfied	38	45
Neither/no opinion	9	4

Q. Regardless of the actual outcome of the election, do you think Mr Major, Mr Kinnock or Mr Ashdown would make the most capable Prime Minister?

	All	Con	Lab	Lib Dem
	%	%	%	%
Mr Major	52	94	19	35
Mr Kinnock	23	2	57	9
Mr Ashdown	19	3	17	52
No opinion	6	1	7	4

Q. Do you think Neil Kinnock should now resign as leader of the Labour Party, or not?

	All	Con	Lab	Lib Dem
	%	%	%	%
Yes, he should resign	53	62	37	54
No, he should not resign	37	26	57	33
Don't know	10	12	6	13

Q. If Neil Kinnock does resign as leader of the Labour Party, who do you think would make the most effective new leader?

	All	Labour supporters
	%	%
John Smith	53	59
Gordon Brown	2	3
Robin Cook	1	2
Roy Hattersley	1	2
Dr John Cunningham	1	1
Bryan Gould	1	1
Tony Blair	1	0
John Prescott	*	0
Gerald Kaufman	*	0
Margaret Beckett	0	0
Other	5	3
Don't know	34	30

Q. Would you personally like to see a referendum held to decide whether we should change the system we use to elect MPs?

	All	Con	Lab	Lib Dem
	%	%	%	%
Yes, hold	52	25	70	74
No, do not hold	45	71	25	24
Don't know	3	4	5	2

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Q. On balance, do you support or oppose changing Britain's electoral system to a system of proportional representation?

	All	Con	Lab	Lib Dem
	%	%	%	%
Support	45	20	59	72
Oppose	40	67	26	19
Don't know	15	13	15	9

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