40% of respondents do not identify as straight

Respondents were asked: How would you describe your sexual orientation?

With smaller sample sizes, the likelihood of misrepresenting certain groups in a cross tabulation increases. The Herald’s goal is to minimize the risk of representing any group inaccurately, so we omitted or combined certain populations from which we did not collect enough responses. n = 1177
Chart: By Abigail DonovanSource: The Herald’s Fall 2024 PollCreated with Datawrapper