Willingness to vote for a Parliamentary candidate who was a Roman Catholic, Jew or atheist (2460)

Type of Data: Willingness to vote for a Parliamentary candidate who was a Roman Catholic, Jew or atheist (2460)

Faith Community: Christianity (Roman Catholic Church), Judaism, Atheism

Date: 1958, 14-19 November

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 968

Population: Adults aged 16 and over

Keywords: Anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism, atheists, Jews, politics, prejudice, religious affiliation, Roman Catholics, voting

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll)

Sponsor: News Chronicle

Published Source:

News Chronicle, 6 February 1959

The Scotsman, 6 February 1959

Ruth Glass, Newcomers: The West Indians in London, London: Centre for Urban Studies, 1960, pp. 248-50

The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain, 1937-1975, ed. George Horace Gallup, 2 vol., New York: Random House, 1976, Vol. 1, p. 545

BRIN ID: 2460

Remarks:

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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