Public split on future of the Coalition
The British electorate is evenly split on the future of the Coalition according to an Ipsos poll for Sky News.
Four in ten people (42%) say they would like the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to stay in Coalition until a general election in 2015, while the same proportion (43%) want to see the Coalition break up and for an immediate general election to take place. Just one in eleven people (9%) want the Conservatives to form a minority government. Even among Conservative voters there is little appetite to end the Coalition and form a minority government (14%).
Over six in ten Conservative and Liberal Democrat supporters want to see the Coalition last until 2015 (65% and 62% respectively). A third of Conservatives want to see the Coalition break up (14% want a minority Conservative government while 19% want an immediate general election). A third of Liberal Democrats (33%) want an immediate general election as do almost two thirds (63%) of Labour supporters. Meanwhile, a quarter of Labour voters say they want the Coalition to stay in place until 2015.
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Technical Note
Ipsos interviewed a representative sample of 1,006 adults aged 18+ across Great Britain. Interviews were conducted by telephone 15th to 17th September 2012. Data are weighted to match the 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. An asterisk (*) denotes any value of less than half a per cent. Voting intention figures exclude those who say they would not vote, are undecided or refuse to name a party and in the headline figures, those who are not absolutely certain to vote. Data are based on all adults unless otherwise stated.
