Post Election Research
On behalf of the Electoral Commission, Ipsos conducted research among the general public immediately after the UK general election and English local elections on May 6th 2010. The survey covered a range of topics relating to the elections, such as: satisfaction with the administration of the elections, attitudes towards registration, electoral fraud and the process of voting itself. The results of the research fed into the Electoral Commission's report on the administration of the 2010 UK general election.
The data is based on 3,586 adults aged 18+ across the United Kingdom. We interviewed 1,023 adults in England, 1,017 in Scotland, 1,032 in Wales and 514 in Northern Ireland. We aimed for a 50/50 spilt of voters and non-voters in each of these.
Interviewing took place by telephone between 7 and 23 May 2010. Data are weighted to match the profile of the population of each country as well as the likely claimed turnout in the General Election, based on our other post-election research. Each of the four countries' data were aggregated and then weighted to their representative level for the population of the UK.
