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The British Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010 contains panel data from nine surveys conducted between the 2005 and 2010 general elections. The nine waves were collected as follows: three waves in 2005, conducted before the election campaign, during the campaign and post-election; one wave conducted in 2006, one in 2008 and one in 2009; and three waves conducted in 2010, before the election campaign, during the campaign and post-election. Further information is available from the BES Panel 2005-2010 webpage and the ESRC Performance Politics: The Dynamics of Political Support in Britain award webpage. For the second edition (August 2014) data from waves 7-9 were added to the study and the documentation updated accordingly.

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Topics covered included electoral issues, party identification and support, party positions on taxation and expenditure, voting intentions and behaviour, opinions on party leaders, trust in British institutions, contact with local politicians, attitudes to the European Union, attitudes to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, social trust, beliefs and value, social and political attitudes, and demographic characteristics.

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