Party identification

Source: British Election Study, 2019 - 2023 (N=203,581)

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Party identification
	Nov 2019 - Dec 2019		Jun 2020 - Jun 2020		May 2021 - May 2021		Nov 2021 - Dec 2021		May 2022 - May 2022		Dec 2022 - Dec 2022		May 2023 - May 2023		Total
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Conservative	9,515	25.7	8,880	28.2	8,449	27.9	7,268	25.9	7,807	25.2	3,640	23.6	7,152	23.5	52,711	25.9
Labour	9,037	24.4	7,477	23.8	6,887	22.7	6,525	23.2	7,507	24.3	3,739	24.3	7,536	24.8	48,708	23.9
Liberal Democrat	2,553	6.9	1,926	6.1	1,743	5.8	1,636	5.8	1,966	6.4	907	5.9	1,952	6.4	12,683	6.2
Scottish National Party (SNP)	756	2.0	793	2.5	772	2.5	673	2.4	736	2.4	330	2.1	583	1.9	4,642	2.3
Plaid Cymru	134	0.4	124	0.4	122	0.4	114	0.4	128	0.4	51	0.3	107	0.4	780	0.4
United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)	233	0.6	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	233	0.1
Green Party	1,234	3.3	961	3.1	1,172	3.9	996	3.5	1,114	3.6	489	3.2	1,199	3.9	7,164	3.5
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	0	0.0
Other	301	0.8	268	0.9	370	1.2	297	1.1	398	1.3	142	0.9	366	1.2	2,144	1.1
No - none	9,426	25.5	8,151	25.9	8,057	26.6	7,974	28.4	8,629	27.9	4,601	29.9	8,782	28.9	55,621	27.3
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	0	0.0
Brexit Party/Reform UK	1,163	3.1	623	2.0	319	1.1	458	1.6	458	1.5	334	2.2	602	2.0	3,958	1.9
Don't know	2,637	7.1	2,265	7.2	2,386	7.9	2,166	7.7	2,199	7.1	1,167	7.6	2,117	7.0	14,938	7.3
Total	36,990	100	31,468	100	30,278	100	28,108	100	30,942	100	15,401	100	30,395	100	203,581	100