Survey Report

YouGov / Scottish National Party Survey Results

Sample Size: 1556 Scottish Adults Fieldwork: 1st - 2nd September 2009 Scottish Constituency Vote Gender Age Social Grade 18 to 35 to Total Con Lab Lib Dem SNP Male Female 55 + ABC1 C2DE 34 54 Weighted Sample 1556 205 367 178 463 739 817 430 560 566 700 856 Unweighted Sample 1556 231 426 155 459 800 756 397 524 635 940 616 % %%%%% %%%%%%

Scottish Constituency Vote SNP 36 0 0 0 100 38 33 32 32 41 33 38 Labour 28 0 100 0 0 28 29 28 32 25 25 31 Conservative 16 100 0 0 0 15 17 16 15 17 17 14 Lib Dem 14 0 010001314151413199 Other 7 00006 797468

Scottish Constituency Non Voters Wouldn't vote 6 00005 897357 Don't know 10 000071312127713

ScottishScottish R Regionalegional VoteVote SNP 30 3 2 8 81 33 28 26 29 35 28 32 Labour 26 1876125272530242428 Conservative 17 91 2 4 3 15 19 16 16 18 19 15 Lib Dem 12 2 572212131312121510 Other 14 3 4 9 12 15 13 20 14 11 14 15 Scottish Regional Vote: Others Green 7 22945 8117385 Scottish Socialist Party 4 01174 342534 Solidarity 1 00011 130001 Other 4 11015 235334 Scottish Regional Non Voters Wouldn't vote 6 00004 796356 Don't know 10 212361410146712

Do you think the Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill was right or wrong to release Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds? Right 45 28 39 57 64 47 42 39 39 55 49 41 Wrong 45 66 52 34 28 44 46 49 49 38 43 47 Don’t know 10 6910891212127812

1 © 2009 YouGov plc. All Rights Reserved www.yougov.com Scottish Constituency Vote Gender Age Social Grade 18 to 35 to Total Con Lab Lib Dem SNP Male Female 55 + ABC1 C2DE 34 54 Weighted Sample 1556 205 367 178 463 739 817 430 560 566 700 856 Unweighted Sample 1556 231 426 155 459 800 756 397 524 635 940 616 % %%%%% %%%%%% Regardless of your views on whether it was right or wrong to release Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi who do you think this kind of decision should be made by? The UK government in London 22 44 25 23 11 22 23 20 23 23 23 22 The Scottish government in Edinburgh 60 42 57 61 79 68 53 61 56 64 63 58 Someone else 11 11 11 12 6 7 14 12 13 7 10 11 Don’t know 7 4 7 4 4 4 11886 410

Do you believe Nelson Mandela’s comments in support for the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds has enhanced or damaged Scotland’s reputation internationally? Enhanced strongly 8 2 5 5 15 9 6 5 6 11 8 7 Enhanced to some extent 41 38 43 47 48 44 39 42 36 46 47 36 TOTAL ENHANCED 49 39 48 52 63 53 45 47 41 57 55 43 Damaged to some extent 18 21 18 18 16 17 19 19 20 15 17 19 DamagedDamaged stronstronglygly 7 14864814 8 6 4 8 7688787 6 8 8 7 8 TOTAL DAMAGED 25 35 26 24 20 25 26 25 28 23 24 27 Don’t know 26 26 26 24 17 23 29 27 31 20 21 30

In addition to weighting by age, gender, social class and region (weighted and unweighted figures shown in the tables), YouGov also weighted its raw data by newspaper readership and political party identification:

Unweighted no. Weighted no. Age and Gender Male 18 to 24 61 95 Male 25 to 39 189 188 Male 40 to 54 218 204 Male 55 + 332 252 Female 18 to 24 72 95 Female 25 to 39 221 188 Female 40 to 54 160 219 Female 55 + 303 314 Social Grade ABC1 940 700 C2DE 616 856 Newspaper Type Express / Mail 234 202 Sun / Star 204 233 Mirror / Record 230 311 Guardian / Independent 120 31 FT / Times / Telegraph 159 78 Other Paper 438 467 No Paper 171 233 Political Party Identification Lab 664 560 Con 206 171 Lib Dem 91 156 Others 233 249 None 317 382 Don't know 45 39

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