Ipsos Teachers Omnibus 2009
Recent research by Ipsos on behalf of the Sutton Trust shows that teachers in England and Wales are most likely to support the Labour Party. Ipsos surveyed 1,000 teachers in primary and secondary schools on voting intentions.
Recent research by Ipsos on behalf of the Sutton Trust shows that teachers in England and Wales are most likely to support the Labour Party. Overall, 25% of teachers would vote Labour if there were a General Election tomorrow, as opposed to 18% who would vote Conservative and 14% Liberal Democrat. (Of those expressing any voting intention, 40% would vote Labour, 29% Conservative and 23% Liberal Democrat.) Meanwhile, around one in seven (15%) are undecided which way to vote and a further one in ten (9%) say they would not go to the polls. However, while one in four teachers age 35+ (26%) would vote for Labour compared with one in six (16%) who would vote Conservative, views amongst younger teachers are less polarised: 22% of those aged 34 and younger would vote Labour compared with 21% who would vote Conservative. It is not clear whether this can be attributed to the greater tendency of younger teachers to say they are undecided (18% versus 13%), or whether younger teachers are genuinely as inclined to be in tune with the Conservatives as with Labour. The research also found that one in six teachers (16%) in Wales would vote for the Welsh Nationalist Party. No support for the BNP was reported.
Technical Details
Ipsos interviewed a representative sample of 1,000 primary and secondary school teachers in England and Wales. Interviews were conducted160by telephone 19 October-3 December 2009, using the annual Ipsos Teachers Omnibus. Data are unweighted (because the achieved sample matched the known profile of the population). Where percentages do not sum to 100, this may be due to computer rounding, the exclusion of 'don't know' categories, or multiple answers. It should be noted that these questions were included on a multi-client Omnibus survey, where preceding questions asked respondents about a variety of practice- and policy-related issues. The political questions posed were a selection of those usually covered in a typical voting intention survey; for example, certainty of voting was not included. As a result, direct comparisons between these data and Ipsos's general public voting intention trends are not applicable.
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