Opinion Panel

Every year here we survey our wonderful panelists on your voting habits. We then compare these results to the general population, and we look at how your political views have changed. Our most recent polling of higher education students finds that whilst wider opinion polls suggest the UK electorate is moving further to the right, [...]

YouthSight’s most recent snapshot of student voting behaviour in the UK (conducted in July 2012) finds students’ party preferences to be in tune with trends within the wider UK electorate. Labour is currently enjoying the most support nationally amongst both students and wider electors, followed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats bringing up the [...]

When I joined OpinionPanel I was keen to know about two aspects of the business. First, how effective is an online panel of students and graduates as a means to providing access and reach to the student population and second how accurate is the data collected via an on-line survey? I am relieved to report [...]

Research conducted by OpinionPanel has been documented on the Channel 4 News website.The article starts: “Students turn against the Liberal Democrats and embrace Labour as opposition mounts to the Coalition Government’s plan to treble university tuition fees.OpinionPanel poll of students has found that just 11 per cent of those eligible to vote would back the [...]

At the beginning of the election campaign, prior to the leadership debates, student support was split between the three main parties. 27% intended to vote Lib Dem, compared with 30% Conservative and 32% Labour.

This story was prepared by press agency London Media based on fieldwork conducted by OpinionPanel using our Student Omnibus Survey. The majority of students in the UK feel betrayed by Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats over rising tuition fees, according to damning new figures. A new survey shows 73 per cent of university students [...]

Research conducted by OpinionPanel and the University of Leicester, looking at a cross section of 10 named universities, found that 1 in 10 of prospective students would be put off applying for a place if all fees rose to £7,000 a year, and only a slightly higher proportion would reject university if faced with fees [...]

The impact of the Leader Debates on the student vote has been nothing short of remarkable. Between the start of the current general election campaign and the second Leader Debate, student support for the Liberal Democrats increased by 23 percentage points, making them as popular as the Labour and Conservative votes combined. Opinionpanel’s latest polling [...]