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2024 Voter Breakdown

Thursday, 9 October 2025

CategoryKey Findings
Age- Under 30: ~8% voted Conservative
- 50-59: 34% voted Labour
- 60-69: 28% Labour
- 70+: 46% Conservative
- Labour vote stable in under-50s (41-46%)
- Median age: Labour 46, Conservative 63, LibDem 48, Reform 56, Green 39
Gender- Labour: 34% men, 35% women
- Lib Dems: 12% men, 13% women
- Conservative: 23% men, 26% women
- Reform UK: 17% men, 12% women
- Among ages 18-24: women more Green (23%) vs men (12%)
– young men more likely to vote Conservative or Reform than young women
Education- Among university-educated: Labour 42%, Conservatives 18%
- Among those with GCSE or below: Conservatives 31%, Labour 28%
- Reform: 23% among lower education, 8% among higher education
- Lib Dems & Greens stronger among higher education groups
Social Grade- ABC1: Labour 36%, Conservative 25%
- C2DE: Labour 33%, Conservative 23%
- Reform: 11% in ABC1, 20% in C2DE
- Lib Dems: 14% ABC1, 11% C2DE
Housing Tenure- Owners (no mortgage): Conservative 37%, Labour 25%
- Mortgage holders: Labour ~39–42%, Conservatives ~21%
- Private renters: Labour 42%, Conservatives 12%, Lib Dems 14%, Reform 13%, Greens 12%
- Social housing renters: Reform 21%, Conservative 14%
- Among mortgage & renting groups, Labour was the top party
Work Status & Income- Retired voters: Conservative 41%, Labour 23%
- Workers: Labour 39%, Conservative 20%
- Income < £50K: Labour 32–34%
- Income ≥ £50K: Labour 40%
- Conservative vote relatively stable across incomes
- Reform did better in lower income groups
2019 → 2024 voting shifts- Conservatives kept 53% of their 2019 voters
- 25% switched to Reform, 10% to Labour, 7% to Lib Dems
- Labour held 71% of their 2019 voters
- 10% to Greens, 8% to Lib Dems, 2% to Conservative
- Lib Dems: 49% stayed Lib Dem, 30% to Labour, 10% to Conservatives
2016 EU Referendum → 2024 vote- Remain voters: 47% voted Labour, 16% Conservative
- Leave voters: Conservative 37%, Reform 28%, Labour 19%
- Lib Dems: 17% among Remain voters, 7% among Leave voters
- Of 2019 Conservative + Remain voters: 63% stayed Conservative; of 2019 Conservative + Leave: 51% stayed, 30% switched to Reform
- Labour held similar proportions of their 2019 Remain (74%) and Leave (69%) voters
- Greens attracted 10% from 2019 Labour + Remain; and Reform got 10% from 2019 Labour + Leave ([YouGov][1)