Angus Reid on the Alternative Vote referendum

Angus Reid have a poll about prefences on the voting system for general elections here. 52% of people say they would like a referendum on switching to the alternative vote system, but as I've often said before, people normally say yes when asked if they'd like a referendum about almost anything.

There were more interesting answers when asked about the voting systems themselves. Asked how they would vote in such a referendum a plurality of people (40%) would vote to switch to Alternative vote, while 31% would stick with FPTP. However, in a seperate question 62% of people said they were satisfied with the present FPTP system. Not, of course, that these are necessarily contradictory positions - just because people are satisfield enough with what they've got, it doesn't mean they couldn't think that an alternative would be even better.