THE Labour party looks likely to win the student vote in York, according to a report published today.

Student Politics 2015 surveyed 13,000 final year students at 30 universities across the country, and found Labour and the Conservatives tied on 31 percent of the vote each, with a surge in Green support on campuses giving them a quarter of the votes while the Liberal Democrat's share could be as little as six percent.

Martin Birchall, of research firm High Fliers, said: “Our research not only confirms that first-time voters at the country’s top universities are set to vote for Labour and the Conservatives in almost equal numbers in the General Election but that there has been a huge surge in support for the Green Party on campus, taking them to within just a few percentage points of the two leading parties.

"By contrast, just 6 per cent of students are planning to vote Liberal Democrat, a quarter of the number who supported the party in 2010.”

The Lib Dems' u-turn on tuition fees has hit the party hard, with 53 percent of students saying they would not vote for the party because it increased fees.

In York, Labour is in the lead on student voting intentions with 36 percent of the vote, the Conservatives have 27 percent, the Greens 25 percent.

The Liberal Democrats polled at seven percent of the student vote in York, and UKIP at two percent.

The survey also shows that York students are among the most likely to consider standing as an MP in the future.

The city's student vote is split across both constituencies, with the University of York's campus in York Outer but many students living in private accommodation in York Central, where York St John's campus is also located.