General election voting by newspaper readership

2017 UK General Election

According to research from YouGov, voters in the UK generally stuck to the party allegiances of their favourite newspapers during the 2017 general election. Three days after the election, YouGov polled over 50,000 British voters, finding that the Financial Times had the most divided readership. Most readers of the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun and Times voted Conservative. Guardian, Mirror and Independent readers mainly voted for the Labour Party.

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% of votes cast in the 2017 general election by newspaper read most often.

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General election voting by newspaper readership

2017 UK General Election