Find Out Now has again run (previous here) a voting intention survey, with Restore Britain and Your Party included

Turnout adjusted, ‘Don’t know’ respondents squeezed. Full methodology listed below or in the data tables. Find Out Now interviewed a sample of 2,082 GB adults on 3-4th March which is nationally representative by: Gender, Age, Region, Ethnicity and 2024 General Election

Context

When running voting intention surveys, pollsters have to make a methodological decision about which parties to include or not include as explicit vote options, and which should be considered under “Other”. This is due both to space constraints for how many options can be shown at once, but also due to concerns about false equivalence – where including a party side-by-side with the likes of Labour or Conservative may artificially inflate their support. However, this can also make it harder to accurately judge the support levels for newer or smaller parties.

In this voting intention survey, we have tested this. The methodology is exactly the same as our ongoing voting intention tracker (see below), with the only difference being the inclusion of Restore Britain and Your Party as explicit vote options.

Please note, we have no current plans to change the party list for our ongoing weekly voting intention tracker. And due to the methodological difference over which parties were included, the results should not be directly compared.

Key takeaways

• Restore Britain received 7% support. This comes primarily from previous non-voters and Reform supporters, with some former Conservatives
• Their support has potential room to grow. In a subsequent question, double that number (13%) said they would likely consider voting for Restore Britain
• Restore support has a fairly balanced age profile. They have both 9% support among 18-29s and 11% support among 55-64s
• Restore voting seems to have slightly reduced the support for Reform but they remain the largest party by a clear margin 
• Your Party receives very little support, with less than 1% of the vote

Our methodology

• We ask respondents how likely they would vote if a general election was called. To those who said ‘definitely’ or ‘very likely’ we then ask their vote choice
• If a respondent answers ‘Don’t know’ they see an additional question, prompting them again to give an answer. If they then give a valid vote choice they are included in the final calculation, but if they answer ‘Don’t know’ again they are excluded from the final headline calculation
• If a respondent was eligible but didn’t vote at the last general election, they are only included in the final headline calculation if they say they are ‘definitely’ going to vote this time. This is because past voting behaviour is generally more predictive than their declared intentions
• The final sample is filtered and weighted (more details here) to be nationally representative by Gender, Age, Region, Ethnicity and 2024 General Election vote
• A deeper discussion of our methodology in the context of the 2024 General Election can be found here

Full data tables can be found here

This poll was commissioned by Restore Britain

Find Out Now is an MRS company partner, a member of the British Polling Council and abides by their rules. To find out more about our research offer, please visit our services page or contact ask@findoutnow.co.uk

Note: In the previous version of this survey we used “Restore Britain (Rupert Lowe)”, whereas in this survey have used only “Restore Britain”. Further information can be found here