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"I would be comfortable with government debt going up provided that money were invested in the economy and public services"

  • This is the majority or plurality (relative majority) view in 606 of 631 constituencies (96%) in Great Britain.
  • It is the majority or relative majority view in 406 of 411 Labour-held seats (99%), including 213 of the 218 new seats the party won at the election (97%)
  • In polling, it is a view held by 52% of voters overall and 68% of 2024 Labour voters.

"I would NOT be comfortable with government debt going up, regardless of where the money was spent"

  • This is the majority or plurality view in 26 of 631 GB constituencies (4%).
  • It is the majority or plurality view in 5 Labour-held constituencies (1% of all Labour seats, 2% of seats Labour gained in 2024).
  • It is a view held by 37% of voters, with the remainder saying neither statement reflects their opinion.

In the map below you can see MRP results for individual constituencies, highlighting seats held by each party and seats which switched hands at the recent elections. You can see these same results in the table below.



Full data

You can download the full data underlying these graphics here.

Methodology

A 20,000 person survey was conducted by FocalData in the week of the 1st July 2024. MRP (Multilevel Regression with Post-stratification) was used to analyse demographic trends and therefore establish an indicative result for each Parliamentary constituency. This is fundamentally the same technique that is regularly used to derive seat-level estimates of voting intention.



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