The survey tested participants’ political knowledge by asking them whether eight statements about politics were true or false.
Statements included ‘the unemployment rate in the UK is currently less than 5%’; ‘the chancellor of the Exchequer is responsible for setting interest rates in the UK’...
Because of the number of people who are considered to have an average political knowledge 45% of these people will vote labour and 42% will vote conservative. The % are exclusive to the category of political knowledge and not cumulative