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Worcester's Weblog
Students are slightly more important in deciding the outcomes of British general elections than they have been in the past. There are many more of them now than there was 40 years ago. Students numbered around 400,000 in 1964 in an electorate of just over 36m (1.1%) but around 2m in 2001 in an electorate of 43.8m (4.6%).
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Policies, Values, Leaders and Candidates - Relative Importance (trend)
Q How important, if at all, would you say the things I am going to read out will be in helping you decide how to vote in the general election?
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Financial Times Election Research - Poll 2
Reasons for supporting a party, interest in politics and election news, and how well informed the public feel about the parties' policies
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There Will Be Blood On The Carpet
The electorate seem to be settling into a resolve to return Labour to power but with a somewhat reduced majority, according to a face-to-face MORI poll carried out exclusively for the Evening Standard over the last few days.
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Evening Standard Election Research: Poll 1
Including questions on issues important to voting choice and best party on key issues
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New Nuclear Agency Faces Challenges
A new MORI public opinion survey shows last week's establishment of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to have made little impact on public awareness. The NDA is also shown to be facing some challenges with regard to its anticipated tendering of nuclear clean-up contracts to overseas companies, as well as a wider lack of confidence in the decisions being made about the future of nuclear energy in Britain.
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Disabled People and the 2005 General Election
In research conducted in February and March this year, on behalf of Leonard Cheshire, MORI reveals the importance of the disabled vote to the forthcoming general election. In these surveys, over half of disabled respondents said they would consider switching their vote if the policies of their preferred party were disability unfriendly. As turnout may well be one of the key determinants of the outcome of the election, the political parties will take this seriously, as disabled voters, in these surveys, were more likely than the electorate at large to say they would be voting come 5th May.
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State Of the Nation
In February, the single most important issue in the minds of nearly a quarter (23%) of the British nation was immigration and asylum seekers, nearly double the percentage who expressed concern about either the state of the nation's health care (13%) or Iraq, terrorism and the nation's defence (13%).