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Labour Enjoys a 13-Point Lead in Party Identification but Tories More Likely to Vote

A somewhat larger proportion, though a minority of eligible voters (42%),
say they are satisfied with the NHS, compared to those who say they are
dissatisfied (37%). Women are more dissatisfied than men (39% compared to 34%
women).


TABLE 2
LIKELIHOOD TO VOTE IN UPCOMING ELECTION

"How certain will you be to vote in the general election on May 5, 2005?"

Base: All Adults in Great Britain who are eligible to vote


Total Gender Party ID
Male Female Conservative Labour Liberal Other
Democrat Party
% % % % % % %
Absolutely certain
to vote 51 54 48 63 48 56 52
Quite certain to
vote 20 19 21 19 23 20 16
Probably will vote 15 12 17 11 14 16 14
Probably will not
vote 5 5 4 2 7 3 2
Certainly will not
vote 6 7 5 5 5 4 11
Not sure/Decline
to answer 4 2 5 1 3 1 5


TABLE 3
EXPECTATIONS FOR ELECTION OUTCOME

"Given everything you know about the upcoming election, what do you expect
the outcome to be, looking at the options below?"

Base: All Adults in Great Britain who are eligible to vote


Total Gender
Male Female
% % %
Expect the election to be close. Propensity score weighting was
also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online .

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* Among the eligible voters who say they are absolutely certain to vote,
Labour leads the Conservatives by 38 percent to 33 percent, a
five-point lead, with the Liberal Democrats getting 22 percent of the
vote.
* Labour leads in all regions of the country except London and the South
East and Meridian (South Central England)
* Labour leads among all households with incomes below 50,000 pounds. If you had to say, which party are you most inclined to support?

Base: All adults

All Eligible Absolutely Certain
Voters To Vote
% %
Labour 39 38
Conservative 32 33
Liberal Democrat 23 22
Other Parties 7 7

Labor Lead 7% 5%

Note: Percentages may not add to 100% because of rounding

TABLE 2
Likelihood of Voting -- By Voting Intention

Base: All adults

Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat
% % %
Absolutely 67 61 60
Certain
Certain 17 16 20
Probably Will 8 12 10
Probably Will 2 3 3
Not
Certain Not To 5 4 4
Not Sure/Refused 2 4 4

Note: Percentages may not add to 100% because of rounding


TABLE 3
Demographic Breakouts

Base: Adults Absolutely Certain to Vote in 5 May 2005 Election


Conservatives Labour Liberal
Democrat
Gender
Men % 35 35 22
Women % 31 40 22

Age
Age 18-29 % 25 35 33
Age 30-49 % 26 43 24
Age 50 and over % 41 35 18

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Scotland* % 15 39 22
Greater London and % 36 34 21
South
Midlands % 34 41 19
Lancashire % 29 44 23
Yorkshire % 33 45 19
Meridian % 40 28 29
North East % 32 45 19
Wales and West % 30 42 25

Household Income
Less than pounds % 31 40 22
Sterling 15,000
pounds 15,000-29,999 % 30 43 20
pounds 30,000-49,999 % 36 35 24
pounds 50,000 or more % 40 32 24

2001 Vote
Voted Conservative in % 92 1 5
2001
Voted Labour in 2001 % 8 77 12
Voted Liberal % 15 14 68
Democrat in 2001

Election Expectation %
Expect Election to Be % 39 36 20
Close
Expect Labour to Win % 15 51 28
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* SNP receives 20% of the vote in Scotland

Though this online sample was not a probability sample, in theory, with
probability samples of this size, one could say with 95 percent certainty that
the results for the overall sample have a sampling error of plus or minus 2
percentage points of what they would be if the entire adult population had
been polled with complete accuracy. Harris Interactive and HI Europe Launch The Harris Poll in Europe

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-- Somewhat higher proportions of eligible voters are pessimistic about
the future of the economy (36%) or are neither optimistic nor
pessimistic (34%) than are optimistic (30%).

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And CQPolitics. Only 11 percent of online adults said they would certainly not vote
using this system . 26 31 22
Expect the Conservatives to win by a big
margin 2 2 2
Not Sure 13 10 15
Decline to Answer 1 1 1


TABLE 4
SATISFACTION WITH NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

"Overall, how satisfied are you with the service provided by the National
Health Service (NHS)?"

Base: All Adults in Great Britain who are eligible to vote


Total Gender
Male Female
% % %
Satisfied (NET) 42 44 41
Very Satisfied 12 15 10
Somewhat Satisfied 30 29 31
Neither Satisfied Nor Dissatisfied 20 21 18
Dissatisfied (NET) 37 34 39
Somewhat Dissatisfied 26 23 28
Very Dissatisfied 11 10 11
Not Sure 1 2 1

Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
While all respondents of the online survey are Internet users, HI Europe's
ongoing parallel studies and extensive experience enable us to weight the
sample to represent the GB adult population.hieurope.

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Survey Methodology
This HI Europe Harris Poll was conducted online among 6,411 eligible
voters (adults aged 18 and over) throughout Great Britain from 1 through 4
May, 2005.
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Other important findings from the survey of eligible British voters are:

-- 46% think that taking military action against Iraq was the wrong thing
to do , 38% think that it was the right thing to do and 16% are not
sure.

TABLE 1
PARTY ID

"Regardless of how you may vote, with which party do you normally think of
as your party?"

Base: All Adults in Great Britain who are eligible to vote


Total Gender Whether Voted in 2001
Male Female Voted Was Eligible
But Did Not
Vote
% % % % %
Labour 40 39 41 41 40
Conservative 27 31 22 31 17
Liberal Democrat 17 17 18 16 18
Other Party 3 3 3 3 4
None of These 5 5 5 4 9
Not Sure 8 6 10 5 11

Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.

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Conservatives leading among people over 50 by six points.
This survey finds men are more likely than women to think of themselves as
Conservative (31% to 22%) and women are more likely than men to view
themselves as Labour supporters (41% to 39%). Men are more likely than women to think that it was the right
thing to do (46% compared to 30% women). Unfortunately, there are several other
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Final Harris Poll Gives Labour a Five-Point Lead

The reason for the difference between all eligible voters and the voters
who are most likely to vote is that 67 percent of Conservatives say they are
absolutely certain to vote compared to only 61 percent of Labour supporters
and 60 percent of Liberal Democrats.

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* 92 percent of those who voted Conservative in 2001 plan to vote Tory
tomorrow, compared to only 77 percent of those who voted Labour who
plan to vote Labour again. The data are weighted demographically -- by
sex, age, education , income and location.


TABLE 7
IMPORTANCE OF ELECTION TO FUTURE OF UK

"Each general election is significant.

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Men are more optimistic about the economy than women (37% compared to
23% of women), 46 percent of those who voted Labour in 2001 are
optimistic (compared to 14% Conservative), and 59 percent of those who
voted Conservative in 2001 are pessimistic about the economy now
(compared to 22% Labour). However, some are more important to
the future of the country than others.


TABLE 8
OPTIMISM/PESSIMISM ABOUT FUTURE OF ECONOMY

"How pessimistic or optimistic are you about the future of the national
economy?"

Base: All Adults in Great Britain who are eligible to vote


Total Gender Party Voted for in 2001
Male Female Conservative Labour Liberal
Democrat
% % % % % %
Optimistic (NET) 30 37 23 14 46 27
Very Optimistic 4 6 2 * 7 2
Somewhat 26 31 21 14 39 25
Optimistic
Neither
Pessimistic
Nor
Optimistic 34 29 40 27 32 33
Pessimistic (NET) 36 34 37 59 22 39
Somewhat 29 27 31 46 20 31
Pessimistic
Very
Pessimistic 7 7 6 13 2 8

Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. It is impossible to quantify the errors that may result from these
factors.

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"These findings suggest that voter turn out will be a key issue,"
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Will the race be close?
This poll suggests the result of this election will be closer than the gap
in identification because, as the data show, Conservatives were more likely
than Labour supporters to have voted in the 2001 election, and they are also
more likely to do so on Thursday .

Online ballot for voters
Adults who are online and eligible to vote said that if given the option
to vote using an online ballot system via an Internet connection in their
home , more than one in four (26%) would use this system to vote. 58 56 60
Expect Labour to win by a big margin.

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However, this is not a prediction of the vote .harrispollonline. Of those who
said they would certainly or probably would not vote in the upcoming election,
one in five (19%) say they would be absolutely certain to vote using this
system.


TABLE 9
LIKELIHOOD TO USE ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM

"If you were given the option to vote in the upcoming election using an
online ballot system that you could access via an Internet connection in your
home, how certain would you be to vote using this system?"

Base: All Adults who are online

Total Likelihood to Vote in Upcoming Election
Certainly Probably Probably Quite Absolutely
Will Will Not Will Vote Certain Certain to
Not Vote Vote to Vote
Vote
% % % % % %
Absolutely
certain to
vote using
this system 26 19 19 26 28 28
Quite
certain to
vote using
this system 15 6 18 19 20 14
Probably
would
vote using
this system 23 15 23 31 25 20
Probably
would not vote
using
this system 12 10 18 9 12 14
Certainly
would
not vote
using this
system 11 29 8 8 7 12
Not Sure 12 18 15 7 9 12
Decline to
Answer 1 5 -- * -- *

Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.

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Demographic Analysis
The large sample used in this survey allows an analysis by various
demographic groups with more confidence than for smaller samples. In addition, propensity score
weights are used to eliminate other differences that exist when using an
online sample to project the results to the population of all adults with
respect to the attitudes and behaviors of the respondents. (http://www.harrisinteractive. But about equal proportions of
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Those who voted in the 2001 election are significantly more likely to
think that the general election is important to the future of the UK
(51% compared to 37% of those who were eligible but did not vote-
percentages are combined "extremely important" and "very important"
responses.5 %.com) is the London-based subsidiary of
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partisan information on government, politics and public policy. Forty percent of
eligible voters think of themselves as Labour supporters compared to only 27
percent who think of themselves as Conservatives and 17 percent who think of
themselves as Liberal Democrats. However this is not a prediction of how, or
whether, people will actually vote in the upcoming UK election.

Methodology
This HI Europe Harris Poll was conducted online within Great Britain
between 26 and 28 April 2005 among 2,177 British adults aged 18 and older , of
whom 2,090 are eligible and registered to vote in this upcoming election and
1,434 were eligible and voted in the 2001 election.

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online by HI Europe, subsidiary of Harris Interactive(R), among 6,411 eligible
voters throughout Great Britain from 1 through 4 May 2005 finds that Labour
has a five point lead over the Conservatives, among those who are most likely
to vote on Thursday.Y.

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Forty percent of all eligible voters think of themselves as supporters of
the 'Labour Party', 27 percent think themselves as 'Conservative ', 17 percent
think themselves as 'Liberal Democrat' and three percent affiliate themselves
with an 'Other' party.

The public is somewhat equally divided on the state of the National Health
Service (NHS).


TABLE 5
MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAQ - RIGHT OR WRONG THING TO DO

"Thinking about everything that has happened, do you think that taking
military action against Iraq was the right or wrong thing to do?"

Base: All Adults in Great Britain who are eligible to vote


Total Gender Whether Voted in 2001 Election
Male Female Voted Was Eligible But
Did Not Vote
% % % % %
Wrong Thing 46 42 49 49 41
Right Thing 38 46 30 36 40
Not Sure 16 12 21 15 19

Total Party Voted for in 2001
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat
% % % %
Wrong Thing 46 56 37 69
Right Thing 38 32 45 19
Not Sure 16 12 18 12


TABLE 6
IMMIGRATION POLICY

"Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: "The current
government has been too lax with regard to its immigration policy?"

Base: All Adults in Great Britain who are eligible to vote


Total Party Voted for in 2001
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat
% % % %
Disagree 16 3 24 22
Agree 73 96 62 68
Not Sure 10 2 14 10

Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.

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proportions of those aged 55 and over think the election is extremely
important (25%) or very important (32%) to the country's future.
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immediately before the UK election on Thursday. Given everything eligible voters know about
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Base: All Adults in Great Britain who are eligible to vote

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% % % % % % % %
Extremely
Important 18 21 16 14 15 16 18 25
Very Important 29 29 29 29 22 35 27 32
Important 30 26 33 26 36 24 36 27
Somewhat
Important 20 20 20 29 23 22 15 14
Not At All
Important 3 4 2 2 3 3 4 2


Total Whether Voted in 2001
Voted Was Eligible But
Did Not Vote
% % %
Extremely Important 18 20 12
Very Important 29 31 25
Important 30 29 31
Somewhat Important 20 17 24
Not At All Important 3 2 7

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-- 73% agree that "the current government has been too lax with regards to
its immigration policy", 96% of those that voted for the Conservatives
in 2001 agree, 62% of those that voted for Labour in 2001 agree, and
68% of those that voted for Liberal Democrats in 2001 agree.
Though this online sample was not a probability sample, in theory, with
probability samples of this size, one could say with 95 percent certainty that
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percentage points of what they would be if the entire adult population had
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Voting Intentions -- All Eligible Voters and Likely Voters

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