How Britain Voted 1974 - 2010 (Split by Gender, Age & Class)

source >> IPSOS MORI

How Britain Voted 1974 - 2010

	Oct 1974	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
All
Conservative	37	45	44	43	43	31	33	33	37
Labour	40	38	28	32	35	44	42	36	30
Lib / Alliance / LD	19	14	26	23	18	17	19	23	24
Con lead	-3	+7	+16	+11	+8	-13	-9	-3	+7
Men
Conservative	32	43	42	43	41	31	32	34	38
Labour	43	40	30	32	37	45	42	34	28
Lib / Alliance / LD	18	13	25	23	18	17	18	22	22
Con lead	-11	+3	+12	+11	+4	-14	-10	0	+10
Women
Conservative	39	47	46	43	44	32	33	32	36
Labour	38	35	26	32	34	44	42	38	31
Lib / Alliance / LD	20	15	27	23	18	18	19	23	26
Con lead	+1	+12	+20	+11	+10	-12	-9	-6	+4
18-24
Conservative	24	42	42	37	35	27	27	28	30
Labour	42	41	33	39	38	49	41	38	31
Lib / Alliance / LD	27	12	23	22	19	16	24	26	30
Con lead	-18	1	9	-2	-3	-22	-14	-10	-1
25-34
Conservative	33	43	40	39	40	28	24	25	35
Labour	38	38	29	33	37	49	51	38	30
Lib / Alliance / LD	24	15	29	26	18	16	19	27	29
Con lead	-5	5	11	6	3	-21	-27	-13	5
35-44
Conservative				45	40	28	28	27	34
Labour				28	36	48	45	41	31
Lib / Alliance / LD				25	20	17	19	23	26
Con lead				17	4	-20	-17	-14	3
45-54
Conservative				45	47	31	32	31	34
Labour				31	31	41	41	35	28
Lib / Alliance / LD				23	18	20	20	25	26
Con lead				14	16	-10	-9	-4	6
55-64
Conservative				45	44	36	39	39	38
Labour				31	35	39	37	31	28
Lib / Alliance / LD				21	19	17	17	22	23
Con lead				14	9	-3	2	8	10
65+
Conservative				46	48	36	40	41	44
Labour				32	34	41	39	35	31
Lib / Alliance / LD				21	17	17	17	18	16
Con lead				14	14	-5	1	6	13
18-34
Conservative			41	38	38	28	25	26	33
Labour			31	36	38	49	48	38	31
Lib / Alliance / LD			27	24	18	16	21	27	29
Con lead			10	2	0	-21	-23	-12	2
35-54
Conservative	34	46	44	45	43	30	30	29	34
Labour	42	35	27	29	34	45	43	38	29
Lib / Alliance / LD	20	16	27	24	19	19	20	24	26
Con lead	-8	11	17	16	9	-15	-13	-9	5
55+
Conservative	42	47	47	46	46	36	39	40	41
Labour	40	38	27	31	34	40	38	34	30
Lib / Alliance / LD	14	13	24	21	17	17	17	20	19
Con lead	2	9	20	15	12	-4	1	6	11
Middle class (ABC1)
Conservative	56	59	55	54	54	39	38	37	39
Labour	19	24	16	18	22	34	34	30	27
Lib / Alliance / LD	21	15	28	26	21	20	22	26	26
Con lead	+37	+35	+39	+36	+32	+5	+4	+6	+12
Skilled working class (C2)
Conservative	26	41	40	40	39	27	29	33	37
Labour	49	41	32	36	40	50	49	40	29
Lib / Alliance / LD	20	15	26	22	17	16	15	19	22
Con lead	-23	0	+8	+4	-1	-23	-20	-7	+8
Semi / unskilled working class (DE)
Conservative	22	34	33	30	31	21	24	25	31
Labour	57	49	41	48	49	59	55	48	40
Lib / Alliance / LD	16	13	24	20	16	13	13	18	17
Con lead	-35	-15	-8	-18	-18	-38	-31	-23	-9

Source: MORI/Ipsos MORI election aggregates 1979-2010 (weighted to final outcome). Some age combinations are not available in earlier aggregates. 1974 figures taken from a Louis Harris poll.