Latest ICM, Survation and Opinium polls all show YES on 48%

Two days to go until the referendum, and we starting to get the final "eve-of-election" polls. Three of them should be out tonight - ICM's final poll for the Scotsman, Opinium's final poll for the Telegraph and a Survation poll for the Daily Mail. As at the weekend, I'll update this post as they come in.

ICM's poll for the Scotsman shows YES on 41%, NO on 45%, don't knows on 14%. Excluding don't knows that works out at YES 48%, NO 52%. Last week ICM did two Scottish polls - a traditional telephone one for the Guardian which showed a two point lead for NO, and a rather unusual online one for the Sunday Telegraph showing an eight point lead for YES - far and away their best showing in any poll. However, the ICM online poll had a small sample size and seemed to be a Scottish boost to a GB poll rather than a bespoke poll in its own right, so we were a bit dubious about it. Today's poll suggests we were right to be sceptical - a bespoke, full size ICM online poll is bang in line with the rest of the pack.

UPDATE: Almost as soon as I'd posted Opinium's Telegraph poll also appeared, with identical headline figures of YES 48%, NO 52%. This is almost the same as their poll for the Observer at the weekend which had a 47/53 split. Tabs for the Opinium poll are online here (I don't think the ICM ones will be up until the morning). Survation is the final confirmed poll of the night, and I'm expecting that at 10pm.

UPDATE2: And Survation are also showing YES 48%, NO 52%. Tabs are here. Once again, it very similar to their previous poll which was showing 47/53. Three polls tonight, and all three showing a 48/52 split. The referendum polls really have come into a very tight consensus now, updating my list from the weekend we now have levels of YES support (excluding don't knows) of:

Panelbase (online) 49% ICM (phone) 49% TNS (face to face) 49% YouGov (online) 48% ICM (online) 48% Opinium (online) 48% Survation (online) 48% Survation (phone) 46%

The final polls tomorrow (and for MORI Thursday morning) may pick up very late swing, but barring any surprises it looks like the polls are going to be predicting a narrow victory for NO.

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