Don’t count your votes before they’re dispatched

Support for a Yes vote may not be as strong as we all think.

Twenty-six days to polling day, and the referendum campaigns are now in full swing. This latest opinion poll, part of the 2015 Voters Parties and Elections Referendum Study, provides the first hard test of public opinion on the issue of marriage equality.

This is the first of three surveys to be commissioned over the course of the referendum. The interest of the study focuses on three main themes: levels of support for the ...