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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

British Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010

Variable Details

Variablepost_q26
LabelParty Really Preferred-Other Party
Question text You said you really preferred an ‘other’ party. Please say here which party this was.
Responses
- 1
A Labour party without Blair and cronies 1
A National Coalition 1
A party yet to be formed. One which is entirely trustworthy. 1
Christian Alliance 1
Durham Taxpayers Alliance 1
I did not prefer any party I think they are all pretty useless 1
I didn't prefer another party (they are all as bad as each other) I just didn't want a lib dem government with their ideas of local income tax replacing council tax 1
I don't like any of them 1
I really don't know - they are all about the same. No option for DK. 1
I said other because there wasn't an option for 'none'. I just didn't want another 4 years of Labour government 1
Legalise Cannabis Alliance 1
Liberal 1
NONE 1
None 1
None Their All Lieing Bastards 1
None of them 1
None particularly but I wanted the Conservative candidate to not feel too complacent 1
None, they're all as bad as each other. Just wanted Labour out, time someone else had a go. 1
Proper socialists 1
RESPECT 2
Raving loony party 1
Real Labour (i.e. democratic socialist Labour) 1
Respect 4
SDLP 1
SSP 1
Scottish Socialist 1
Scottish Socialist Party 1
Socialist 1
The old Social Demacrats best suited my opinions, the Lib Dems have now drifted to far off. I didn't want the Conservatives to get in. 1
Veritas 2
anyone other than labour 1
british democrats 1
mebyon kernow 1
monster raving loony party 1
n/a 1
no comment 1
no party 1
no party really appealed, i voted to get labour out 1
no specific party addressed my concerns 1
none 7
none of them 1
not new labour 1
respect 1
socialist 1
socialist workers/respect/other communist or socialist party 1
ssp 2
veritas 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationBritish Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010
UniverseElectors resident in Great Britain during 2005-2009.;National
SamplingQuota sample
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort; The dataset contains six survey waves.
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