ComRes show NO ahead in AV referendum
In my round up of AV polling earlier this week I said that while different companies were showing different topline figures, all the companies that had polled in the last month or so were united in showing the tide moving in the direction of the NO camp.
ComRes's monthly poll for the Independent on Sunday is out now, and follows the same trend. The YES campaign are on 34% (down 6 since February), the NO campaign are on 37% (up 7 since February). Don't know is at 28%. Notably while YouGov's polls that preface their question with an explanation of FPTP and AV have been showing a NO lead for a long time, this is the first poll asking the bare referendum question to have shown NO in the lead.
Topline voting intention meanwhile is CON 37%(+1), LAB 40%(-2), LDEM 11%(nc), Others 12%. Changes are from the previous online ComRes poll a month ago, since on average their online polls seem to show higher support for the Conservatives than their phone polls.
UPDATE: There is also a YouGov poll on AV for Sky News out tonight - voting intention (using the bare referendum question, without the explanation of the systems used in the AV tracker for the Sun) is YES 37%, NO 32%, Don't know 24%, Would not vote 7%.
