A NEW poll shows the Green party pulling into the lead with student voters in York.

A survey conducted by York Student Think Tank found the Green Party looked likely to win most votes of University of York students ahead in the General Election.

From the 255 students who responded to the question "If the General Election was held tomorrow, who would you vote for?", 30 percent of students said they would for the Green party, 28 per cent for Labour and 17 percent for the Conservatives.

The students were surveyed between January 18, and March 1 - when 76 per cent said they were registered to vote. Among the people asked, 82 per cent answered they were very likely to vote, against four per cent who were unlikely.

The report also highlights nearly 50 percent of respondents said they were strongly engaged in politics while only 1.6 per cent said they were not at all and 11.7 per cent answered they did not know.

The results contradicts research from Student Politics 2015 which found Labour was the most likely to win the York students’ vote, gathering 36 per cent of support, against 27 per cent for the Conservatives and 25 per cent for the Greens.

The York Student Think Tank survey also shows eight per cent of students would cast their vote for the Liberal Democrats and four per cent for Ukip, figures quite similar to the Student Politics poll which indicates seven per cent for the Liberal Democrats and two per cent for Ukip.

The Student Politics 2015 survey was the result of face to face interviews conducted with 429 final year students at the University of York in March.