How accurate is Vote for Policies?

[itsnotabouthepasta]

I've just used their tool to look through who I should vote for. It actually came out as I was expecting - lib dem with a leaning towards labour, which is about right as I generally describe myself as left of centre.

What I thought was interesting was their results at the end. It shows your own own results, but also gives a table based on your constituency.

Currently, my tory MP has a 66% majority - but based on 10 people (don't start, I know) - it actually says that based on what people would choose as their preferred policies, the green party would be the preferred option. This makes sense because our local elections saw the greens/lib dems join a coalition.

But what I thought was really interesting is the vote for policies tool then gives an insight into policy preferences for England and then nationally.

Based on almost 23k survey responses, it actually shows a majority for Lib Dem, not Labour - I thought this was hugely interesting, and I have no idea how this compares to the accuracies of the polls, nor how accurate this website is.

But it does suggest that no one should take anything for granted!

Currently, my tory MP has a 66% majority

so does mine, wonder if its the same

i havent done the policy one yet but I’ll have a look

75% lib dem and 25% labour

which again makes sense to me

You're pretty much the same as me then.

Are you south suffolk?

No hampshire

would have been funny though 😀

labour were 2nd with 18.5%

I read somewhere that as a whole the UK are quite centerist which would make sense when you look at the results in your OP

Sounds like rubbish if they are basing things on 10 people, selected by deciding to use their tool so in no way random. Not surprising it's mainly middle class lib dem supporters that are using it!

50% Labour, 25% Lib Dem, 25% Green this makes sense for me. Useful tool, thanks OP!

My constituency is only based on 9 people so far and I'd say conservative is stronger here than the current tiny sample shows. Lib Dem leading 32%

they aren’t basing it on ten people. It’s just pure chance that ten people in my constituency have filled it in.

as you can see from the national picture, it was a sample size of 23k

I don't understand why you would look at policy areas separately though. It's not a pick and mix.

I can't get Green Party investment on Tory tax plans

I love green policies but I don't believe the Green Party tax proposals add up. There's tens of billions of incremental investment proposed but I can't see how they fund it. I like the wealth tax but can't imagine it would bring much revenue

It now has over 47,000 responses and the national results are almost exactly the same as in the OP's picture.

SNP appears to be on 0% - so NOBODY likes SNP policies 😂

I suspect that's a flawed application of the stats, taking a national picture for a party you could only select in Scotland.

I came out 60 % Lib Dem 30 Green and 10 Labour. I did have several occasions where it was eeny meeny.

I have been a Labour voter all my life so that was interesting...if Labour couldn't depend on loyalty they'd be in trouble! As they were in the other direction in the Red Wall.

I live in a famous constituency with a recently deposed bonkers Tory. It went Labour. According to the tool, my constituency are a bunch of lib dems and Greens on everything, even immigration. Except Crime where they seem to like Reform and pensions where they're Tories...

I really didn't like this tool when I tried it yesterday. When I tried the quick start option it came up equal lib dem,labour and green which seemed about right, but when I decided only 3 policy areas wasn't enough and did more, it came up all over the place across loads of parties. It would be much more useful to be able to see things like, eg labour were either first or second choice across all policy areas, whereas conservative were first choice for one but last for most others - much more useful than knowing both were first choice for one and no further differentiation .

Given how similar some of the policies were, it made no sense to pick just one party for each, when I might like two of them, and also in some cases I agreed with one bit of the policy not others, so wanted to be able to rank them,or pick more than one to get an overall picture.

Does anyone know if there is anything similar which works a bit differently I could try? I'd love to see one which works on more of a click whether you agree or disagree with certain opinions and then ranks the parties on how much their policies fit with your views overall, for example.

Also, the 'blind' on which party you are choosing didn't really work in Wales because there was consistently only one party which specified Wales in their policies so it was obviously Plaid!

There is another one that does that but the questions are massively over complicated and hard to understand.