Comfort with having the highest elected political position be gay, lesbian or bisexual (EU)

Date
May 30th to June 8th 2015
Regions Surveyed
28

Full Survey Results

This survey was carried out by TNS Opinion & Social network in the 28 Member States of the European Union between 30 May and 8 June 2015. Some 27,718 respondents from different social and demographic groups were interviewed face-to-face at home in their mother tongue on behalf of Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers. The methodology used is that of Eurobarometer surveys as carried out by the Directorate-General for Communication (“Strategy, Corporate Communication Actions and Eurobarometer” Unit) A technical note concerning the interviews conducted by the member institutes of the TNS Opinion & Social network is annexed to this report. It also specifies the interview methods and the confidence intervals.

Question: "And using a scale from 1 to 10, please tell me how you would feel having a person from each of the following groups in the highest elected political position in (OUR COUNTRY). '1' means that you would feel "not at all comfortable" and '10' that you would feel totally comfortable". A gay, lesbian, or bisexual person"

Total Uncomfortable (1-4)
Total Comfortable (7-10)
Survey Average (Unweighted)
28.1%
46.3%
  1. 1. Sweden
    4%
    87%
  2. 3%
    85%
  3. 3. Ireland
    8%
    81%
  4. 4. Belgium
    7%
    80%
  5. 12%
    76%
  6. 6. Denmark
    7%
    70%
  7. 7. Spain
    8%
    69%
  8. 8%
    62%
  9. 9. France
    14%
    68%
  10. 10. Malta
    17%
    61%
  11. 11. Italy
    21%
    49%
  12. 12. Germany
    18%
    41%
  13. 13. Portugal
    22%
    45%
  14. 14. Poland
    34%
    46%
  15. 15. Slovenia
    30%
    42%
  16. 16. Austria
    27%
    35%
  17. 17. Finland
    24%
    31%
  18. 18. Croatia
    38%
    40%
  19. 19. Hungary
    37%
    35%
  20. 20. Greece
    45%
    39%
  21. 36%
    24%
  22. 22. Estonia
    37%
    19%
  23. 23. Cyprus
    55%
    29%
  24. 24. Latvia
    51%
    21%
  25. 25. Slovakia
    48%
    12%
  26. 26. Lithuania
    59%
    20%
  27. 27. Bulgaria
    58%
    14%
  28. 28. Romania
    59%
    15%

Regions are ranked by the percentage of "support" responses out of the total responses (excluding participants who answered "don't know" or refused to answer).

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