How Leave and Remain supporters voted

An interesting YouGov analysis here of how 2016 Leave and Remain supporters voted in 2017 and 2019.



The Conservatives won by holding on to 92% of their 2017 support among Leave Voters and 65% of their 2017 support among Remain voters, while gaining the support of 33% of those 2017 Labour voters who also backed Leave and 46% of 2017 Lib/Dem voters who also backed Leave.

The Lib/Dem policy of revoking Article 50 helped them picked up 22% of 2017 Conservative voters who had backed Remain but cost them 70% of their 2017 support among Leave voters and they only held on to 66% of their 2017 Remain support, with 21% going to Labour.

Labour's policy of "constructive ambiguity" turned out to be an electoral disaster as they held only 79% of their 2017 Remain support and 52% of their 2017 Leave support: there were undoubtedly other reasons besides Brexit for Labour's defeat but these figures support the theory that Labour's Brexit policy appealed strongly to neither side.

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