The first BEPS studied voters from the 1992 General Election through to the 1997 General Election. In between April 1992 and May 1997 a random sample of people were asked about their attitudes towards the political events occurring in the lifetime of the 1992-1997 Conservative Government. This survey was the most ambitious of its kind ever to be conducted. In total eight surveys took place and the results they provided have given us a large amount of new information about the British public and British politics.
A second BEPS, studying a new sample of voters from the 1997 General Election through to the next General Election, is currently in progress will allow us to assess changes in voters' attitudes and opinions through the course of the present Labour government. For more information about the BEPS follow the links below:
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Catherine Bromley
Telephone: +44 20 7549 9572 Email:c.bromley@natcen.ac.uk |
BEPS is able to tell us why and when individual voters change their minds between one election and the next, but it cannot tell us about long term shifts in the electorate's political attitudes and voting behaviour. That role is fulfilled by the British Election Studies (BES), which have recorded how people have voted at every election since 1964.