The ten statements
How much do you agree or disagree with each? Answer at least four in each half; “Don’t know” is fine.
Where everyone sits
Notes
Your answers are anonymous
We keep your ten answers and your two scores, and nothing else: no name, email, IP address, cookie or time. After you answer, your dot is marked “You” on this page only. If you refresh or come back later, it becomes one of the dark grey Wyboston responses, and nobody, not even you, can tell which one it is. Everyone who visits sees every response the same way. To stop anyone flooding the chart, responses from any one connection are capped each minute; the counter that checks this is never saved.
The two scales
Economic, left to right (0 to 10). The first five statements. Agreeing with them is the left; disagreeing is the right.
Social, liberal to authoritarian (0 to 10). The second five. Agreeing with them is the authoritarian end; disagreeing is the liberal end.
Each score is the average of your answers in that half, rescaled to 0–10. Don’t knows are left out; you need at least four answers in each half. This is the British Election Study’s own method, and the dashed lines mark the middle of each scale.
The voter groups
Common cause and Soft Conservatives are the two groups of voters the party works with. Their dots show the shape of each group, not real people: each group is drawn as 1,400 dots scattered over a smoothed summary of where its members sit, and the large circle is the group’s average. The black cross is the average adult in Great Britain.
How people voted in 2024
Each party’s button shows the people who voted for it at the July 2024 general election, drawn the same way as the voter groups, with a large circle at the party’s average. They come from the British Election Study’s first survey after the election to ask all ten statements (wave 30, May 2025): about 3,300 Lib Dem, 3,700 Reform, 700 SNP, 8,700 Labour and 5,400 Conservative voters. The study’s face-to-face post-election survey asks only six of the ten statements, so it can’t place people on this grid.
The Wyboston session heat map
In the Wyboston session, people picked the square where they want the party to be. The heat map shows those picks: the more people chose a square, the deeper its orange. Each square is one point on each scale.
Source: British Election Study Internet Panel, wave 31 (May–June 2026), weighted. Fieldhouse, E., J. Green, G. Evans, J. Mellon, C. Prosser, J. Bailey, R. de Geus, H. Schmitt and C. van der Eijk (2026) British Election Study Internet Panel Waves 1–31, DOI 10.5255/UKDA-SN-8202-4. Groups: wave 31 (May–June 2026); 2024 voters: wave 30 (May 2025). Analysis by the Liberal Democrats; the BES team bears no responsibility for it.