"The welfare system in this country is far too ungenerous, it should be be expanded to help more people."

• 11% (70 of 631) of constituencies in Great Britain hold this view as a majority or plurality opinion;
• Seats that Labour won from the SNP are disproportionately likely to hold the view that welfare benefits should be more generous.
• Labour voters are more likely to be of the view that the welfare system has become too ungenerous in recent years.

"It’s far too easy to get welfare benefits in this country, there should be more conditions on it or it should be reduced"

• 561 of 631 (89%) constituencies in Great Britain have this view as a majority or plurality opinion
• 345 of the 411 constituencies held by the governing Labour party see this perspective as the majority or relative majority 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.