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14 July 2016updated 09 Sep 2021 11:16am

Middle-class university graduates will decide the future of the Labour Party

Three-quarters of Labour Party members are ABC1 voters.

By Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb

We don’t yet know whether it will be Angela Eagle or Owen Smith, or maybe both of them, who ends up running against Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership.  But what we do know – because we reckon we now know lot about the people who will vote in that ballot – is that any challenger is going to have their work cut out.

We surveyed Labour members just after the 2015 General Election, and then ran a second survey in May this year so we could capture those who joined the party after the election.

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