Survey of Christian attitudes in the 2001 Election in the UK

1

Did you vote? (If not, please answer the remaining questions as if you had voted).
The proportion of followers of Christ voting was much higher than the national turnout of about 57%

yes 89.5%
no 10.5%

2

From this list, please tick the three  issues that most influenced how you voted:

(Results are listed in order of how frequently they were selected by respondents.)
Voting patterns for followers of Christ are not significantly different from voting patterns for those who are not his followers.
See press release comments

3

Did the way Tony Blair and William Hague were portrayed on television affect how you voted?
We seem to believe that the mass media affect other people, but not us! Perhaps we have not understood just how influential the mass media really are in our lives.

yes 27.9%
no 72.1%

4

'My Christian faith is a private matter. It shouldn't influence politics.'

agree 12.3%
disagree 87.7%

5

'The Government ought to take more notice of the views of Christians'

agree 95.2%
disagree 4.8%

6

Should the Government license specifically Christian national radio stations?

yes 84.3%
no 15.7%

7

Should the Government do more to limit Sunday trading?

yes 82.7%
no 17.3%

8

Should there be more specifically Christian education in state schools?

yes 92.3%
no 7.7%

9

Does it matter that the monarch is 'the Defender of the Faith' rather than 'a defender of faiths?'

yes 82.3%
no 17.7%

10

'There's no such thing as one truth for everyone. What's true for you may not be true for me too.'

This is a surprising, even alarming, finding - that a quarter of churchgoers have a relativistic attitude to truth. (A recent Gallup poll in America found that 88% of people calling themselves Evangelical Christians believe that the Bible is the written Word of God, accurate in all it teaches, but 53% of the same respondents believe there is no such thing as absolute truth. Thus at least 2 out of 5 of these respondents hold to both these contradictory beliefs.)

In autumn 1997, Christian Research published the results of a survey into the attitudes and beliefs of Christian teenagers. The survey found that nearly half the teenagers who call themselves 'committed Christians' are not sure there is such a thing as absolute truth, while one in three doubts that we can be sure that God exists.

agree 23.4%
disagree 76.6%