Assisted dying polling report

Assisted dying:
Where does your constituency stand?

See the full MRP polling report for your constituency:

About the polling

We commissioned Whitestone Insight to conduct a landmark MRP poll of 10,222 adults across Great Britain between 7 and 14 May 2026. Its purpose was to find out not only where the public stands nationally, but also where opinion sits on assisted dying in every parliamentary constituency in Great Britain.

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The poll is the largest public poll conducted on assisted dying since Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying Bill was introduced in October 2024.

The poll uses MRP (multilevel regression and post-stratification), giving a far more detailed picture of public opinion in each constituency than a single national headline figure.

This gives us something that an ordinary national poll cannot: a picture of how opinion on assisted dying varies from seat to seat across Great Britain. The MRP allows us to see what voters are likely to think in the constituencies represented by individual MPs.

That is particularly important on an issue such as assisted dying, where MPs are being asked to make a decision of enormous consequence on behalf of the people they represent.

With more than 10,000 people taking part, the scale of the research also allows for a much richer analysis of public attitudes than is possible from a standard national opinion poll.

Taken together, the results provide one of the most detailed pictures yet of what the British public thinks about assisted dying and elements relating to the Bill currently before MPs.

Whitestone Insight interviewed 10,222 GB adults online from 7–14 May 2026. Data were weighted to be demographically representative of all GB adults by gender, age, social grade, other demographics and past voting patterns.

Weighting targets come from the 2021 census and reported election results. Weighted population total is the effective sample size (the size of the equivalent uniform sample with the same sample errors).

The full data tables can be viewed at https://www.whitestoneinsight.com/the-other-half-mrp-may-2026.

10,222

The MRP of 10,222 adults across Great Britain is the largest public poll conducted on assisted dying since Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying Bill was introduced in October 2024.

Nationwide

What do voters want their MP to prioritise?

When asked whether legalising assisted suicide should be a priority for their MP in the next year, assisted dying did not rank among the top five named priorities in a single constituency in Great Britain, and it ranked in the bottom three of ten priorities in 630 of 632 constituencies in Great Britain.

  1. 01Controlling immigration
  2. 02Reducing NHS waiting lists
  3. 03Lowering energy prices
  4. 04Growing the economy
  5. 05Tackling inflation
  6. 06Reducing crime
  7. 07Improving social care
  8. 08Building affordable housing
  9. 09Tackling climate change
  10. 10Legalising assisted suicide
    Ranked LAST of the 10 issues tested

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