Who are the people who voted BNP in the 2009 euro-elections?

Channel 4 published a YouGov poll before the European elections to examine what drove support for the BNP. Here are a selection of the findings. The full tables are well worth a look here.

• The overwhelming majority of BNP supporters wanted all immigration stopped — 94% agreed with the statement. For the rest of the public it was 61%.
• BNP supporters were also most likely to put immigration as the top issue facing the country. 87% picked it as a major issue. Amongst the public as a whole it was chosen by 49% of people.

Looking at other statements on race or immigration, BNP supporters tend to contrast even more strongly with supporters of other parties.

• The majority of every other party’s voters agreed with the statement that “non-white British citizens who were born in this country are just as ‘British’ as white citizens born in this country”, but only 35% of BNP voters did, with 44% disagreeing.
• Large majorities of every party’s supporters agreed that there was no difference in intelligence between black and white people except for BNP supporters, where only 41% agreed.
• Almost half (49%) of BNP supporters thought employers should discriminate on grounds of race in favour of white people (compared to 11% in the general population).
• 58% thought most crime was committed by immigrants (22% in the general population). 72% of BNP supporters wanted the government to encourage voluntary repatriation, compared to 27% of the country as a whole.