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Voting intention by school type

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Edited by Leon Spence, Thursday 18 September 2025 at 13:54

Came across this post on X earlier and thought how interesting it is.

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- The selective state school element may, of course, be affected by the age profile of respondents (many parts of the country have not had selective state school generaton for decades,
- of course, the independent school (private school) sample may be small and, therefore, somewhat unreliable,
- but it does appear to support The Guardian's reporting (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/25/class-age-education-dividing-lines-uk-politics-electoral-reform) that education is now a bigger indicator of voting intention than social class.

For full transparency my day job centres around public affairs working with independent schools, so this probably grabs my interest more than it does for most!

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