Source: British Election Study, Panel study data 2017 (N=29,320)
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| No qualifications | Below GCSE | GCSE | A-level | Undergraduate | Postgrad | Total | ||||||||
| Party identification | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| Conservative | 539 | 23.7 | 394 | 27.2 | 1,935 | 28.7 | 1,747 | 25.1 | 2,275 | 24.7 | 560 | 20.7 | 7,449 | 25.4 |
| Labour | 594 | 26.1 | 348 | 24.1 | 1,622 | 24.0 | 1,863 | 26.8 | 2,573 | 28.0 | 756 | 28.0 | 7,757 | 26.5 |
| Liberal Democrat | 52 | 2.3 | 75 | 5.2 | 258 | 3.8 | 459 | 6.6 | 812 | 8.8 | 343 | 12.7 | 1,999 | 6.8 |
| Scottish National Party (SNP) | 43 | 1.9 | 22 | 1.5 | 97 | 1.4 | 191 | 2.8 | 258 | 2.8 | 67 | 2.5 | 678 | 2.3 |
| Plaid Cymru | 5 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.4 | 15 | 0.2 | 14 | 0.2 | 35 | 0.4 | 17 | 0.6 | 91 | 0.3 |
| United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) | 196 | 8.6 | 101 | 7.0 | 469 | 7.0 | 293 | 4.2 | 199 | 2.2 | 33 | 1.2 | 1,292 | 4.4 |
| Green Party | 28 | 1.2 | 15 | 1.0 | 97 | 1.4 | 189 | 2.7 | 287 | 3.1 | 127 | 4.7 | 744 | 2.5 |
| British National Party (BNP) | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Other | 11 | 0.5 | 7 | 0.5 | 30 | 0.5 | 40 | 0.6 | 77 | 0.8 | 35 | 1.3 | 199 | 0.7 |
| No - none | 611 | 26.8 | 364 | 25.2 | 1,704 | 25.3 | 1,589 | 22.9 | 2,119 | 23.0 | 639 | 23.7 | 7,027 | 24.0 |
| Change UK- The Independent Group | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Brexit Party/Reform UK | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Don't know | 197 | 8.7 | 114 | 7.9 | 521 | 7.7 | 566 | 8.1 | 563 | 6.1 | 122 | 4.5 | 2,085 | 7.1 |
| Total | 2,278 | 100 | 1,446 | 100 | 6,749 | 100 | 6,951 | 100 | 9,197 | 100 | 2,699 | 100 | 29,320 | 100 |