Groups most likely to vote UKIP as of January 2014 Britain| ��ƽ��

Groups ranked by share of individuals supporting the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in Great Britain as of January 2014

Characteristic	Share supporting UKIP
Those who say they are "very" or "fairly" right-wing	24%
Working class (C2DE) Conservatives in 2010	22%
Men over 60	21%
Daily Express readers	21%
Daily Mail readers	20%
Highest educational level GCSE/GCE or lower	18%
Semi-/ unskilled men (DE social class)	18%
Sun readers	17%
Daily Telegraph readers	17%
Skilled manual men (C2 social class)	16%
Women over 60	16%
Men aged 50-59	16%
Household income less than 20,000 GBP a year	16%

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Release date

February 2014

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Region

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Survey time period

January 2014

Number of respondents

over 4,000

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI)

Supplementary notes

* Figures were reached by combining the results of YouGov’s polls throughout January. These included more than 4,000 people who said that they would vote for UKIP in a general election. These respondents are detailed here according to other demographic information gathered by the source.

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This statistic displays a ranking of demographic groups by share of members likely to vote UKIP in Great Britain as of January 2014. Those who said they were 'very' or 'fairly' right-wing were most likely to be UKIP voters, at 24 percent of individuals in the group. Readers of the Daily Express newspaper were the most likely group of newspaper readers to indicate UKIP support. At 1 percent, Guardian readers were the least likely.