Since July 2004 OpinionPanel has been the only market research company to continually track the voting intentions of students and young people. We’ve run 72 waves so far, each time using a fully representative sample of 1000 students in full-time higher education. The graphs below plot the long term trends, including some key dates, and more recent trends since January 2010. We’ll be updating these charts regularly and producing newsletters for all our student panellists.

These findings have been highly influential. They’re been analysed by leading pollsters, are regularly featured in the national press and have been used in debates in parliament. By joining the Student Panel you get a change to have your views included…

General Methodology

Each wave of the Student omnibus has a sample size of 1,000+ and achieves responses from full-time undergraduate students at around 130 HEIs. Quotas are set to reflect the UK student population in terms of university type (Russell Group, other Old universities, New universities, other HEIs), year group (1, 2, 3+) and gender. Targets for the quotas were acquired using data supplied by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Weights are also used to ensure the sample is representative by gender, year group (1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year+) and university type (Russell group, pre 1992 universities, post 1992 universities, other specialist institutions). All completers received £1 in Amazon vouchers.