A preference for the Democrats over the Republicans extends across pretty much every major political and demographic divide in Britain, with one exception: Reform voters, who are three times as likely to favour the Republicans (36%) than the Democrats (12%).
This contrasts with nearly two thirds of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters (63-64%) saying they would be more likely to support the Democrats, and only negligible proportions (2-3%) preferring the Republicans. Those who voted Conservative in 2024 are also more likely to favour America’s ‘liberal’ party (32%) than its ostensibly ‘conservative’ one (14%), though with 54% saying ‘neither’ or ‘don’t know’.
Donald Trump is highly unpopular in Britain, and has made the US unpopular as well
With the midterm elections taking place against the backdrop of record levels of unpopularity for Donald Trump, YouGov UK’s tracker data shows that the US president has similarly reached his most negative rating among the British public as well.
Our latest tracker data from October shows that 86% of Britons have an unfavourable view of the US president, compared to only 10% who see him in favourable terms. These represent the joint-highest unfavourable and joint-lowest favourable figures we have recorded since we started tracking in March 2025, but the first time they have coincided in the same month, making Trump’s net favourability score of -76 the lowest to date.
Even among Reform voters, who are the warmest group towards Trump, only 36% have a favourable view of the president, with 61% holding a negative opinion. This compares to 85-97% of Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and Green voters.
