MORI Scotland / Sunday Herald Poll
As you may know, you will have two votes in the election for the Scottish Parliament. The first is for a named candidate standing in your area, just like in a general election. The other vote is for a party, and people will be elected from lists that the parties put forward, according to the proportion of the total number of votes that each party wins.
MORI interviewed a representative sample of 1,000 people aged 18+. Interviews were conducted by MORI's telephone research centre Online Scotland between 10th -11th March 1999.
Q1a Thinking about the first vote, which party's candidate would you vote for, if the election for the Scottish Parliament were tomorrow?If undecided or refused
Q1b Which party's candidate are you most inclined to support?
Q2a And now, thinking about the second vote that you will have, to elect people from lists that the parties will put forward, which party list would you vote for if the election for the Scottish Parliament were tomorrow?If undecided or refused
Q2b Which party are you most inclined to support?
Q3 You say you would vote for ... in your first vote for an individual candidate and ... in your vote for the party list. Why will you choose to vote for different parties with the two votes you have? Base: 91
| % | |
| Different view of local candidate and party | 31 |
| To prevent a huge majority | 18 |
| Not sure which party I prefer | 18 |
Q4 It islikely that no single party would gain an overall majority in the Parliament, because of the voting system. Which of the following partnerships between parties would you most like to see?
| 1997 | 1999 | |
| % | % | |
| Labour and SNP | 42 | 40 |
| Labour and Liberal Democrat | 28 | 21 |
| SNP and Liberal Democrat | 8 | 14 |
| Conservative and Liberal Democrat | 7 | 5 |
| SNP and Conservative | 2 | 5 |
| Labour and Conservative | 3 | 4 |
| None of them | 3 | 7 |
| Don't know | 6 | 5 |
Q5 Do you approve or disapprove of separate Catholic schools continuing to exist witin the state education system? Is that strongly or tend to approve?
| 1985 | 1999 | Change | |
| % | % | % | |
| Strongly approve | 9 | 11 | +2 |
| Tend to approve | 15 | 14 | -1 |
| Neither | 11 | 8 | -3 |
| Tend to disapprove | 31 | 25 | -6 |
| Strongly disapprove | 28 | 31 | +3 |
| No opinion | 6 | 11 | +5 |
Q6 Can I just check, do you have any children at school?
| % | |
| Yes, primary | 17 |
| Yes, secondary | 12 |
| No, neither | 75 |
