Knowledge About and Interest In The Election Campaign

• These results are taken from phase 2 of a panel survey conducted by MORI for the Electoral Commission (Link to the survey's home page)
• MORI interviewed 1,162 of the 1,472 Phase 1 respondents who agreed to be re-contacted
• Interviews were conducted by telephone between 9-18 June 2001
• The final sample includes 257 interviews with ethnic minority respondents
• Data are weighted to the known population profile
• Results are based on all respondents unless otherwise stated
• An '*' indicates a finding of less than 0.5%, but greater than zero
• Where percentages do not add up to exactly 100% this may be due to computer rounding, the exclusion of "don't knows" or to multiple answers

Q15 Did you receive too much, too little or about the right amount of information about the following aspects of the General Election ... ?

The candidates in your constituency

The policies of the parties

The parties' campaigns nationally

The party leaders Base: 376

(Alternative wording: What the party leaders were doing Base: 786)

Q16-Q20 I am going to read out a number of statements some people have made about the General Election campaign this year. Please tell me how much do you agree or disagree with each.

Q16 "I did not believe that voting would make much of a difference"

Q17 "None of the parties stands for the policies I would like to see"

Q18 "I didn't think it was important to vote"

Q19 "There was very little difference between what the main parties were offering"

Q20 "It was an interesting election campaign"