Sunday 25 January 2015

Graphs at a Glance: Is the quickest route to voters ballots via their newspapers?

Some newspapers claim to be able to swing their readers like bats beating carpets. Figures from Ipsos-Mori, the polling organisation, show a clear difference in the swing magnitude between the various papers' readerships.
While the Sun and the Daily Star have the greatest swings, they also have the lowest voter turnouts. 
The graphs below show Sun readers appear to have shifted from Labour to Tory. The Daily Star's swing seems to be less due to readers shifting from Labour to Tory than to readers shifting from Labour to any party other than Tory.


In the interests of balance we offer below the voting histories of each of the papers' readerships in swingingest order:


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