The weekly YouGov poll for the Sunday Times is now up here. Topline voting intention figures are CON 30%, LAB 40%, LD 11%, UKIP 13%. The bulk of this week's questions were on benefits (and there is a second YouGov poll in the Sun on Sunday also asking
The fortnightly Opinium poll for the Observer is out tonight and has topline figures of CON 28%(nc), LAB 38%(nc), LDEM 8%(-1), UKIP 17%(+1). Voting intentions are pretty much identical to a fortnight ago - the UKIP score looks startling but Opinium have had them this high
I like data from tracking polls. There is often no "correct" way of asking about a subject and answers can come down to how you word a question, but if you ask a question in the same way over a long period of time then - all things
Way back in late 2011 I wrote about the gender gap in the polls, or more the point, the disappearing gender gap. At the time there was a lot of discussion in the newspapers about the Conservatives struggling with the female vote, but at the time it really wasn'
YouGov's daily polling for the Sun this morning has topline figures of CON 30%, LAB 40%, LDEM 12%, UKIP 13%. While we have seen much higher from other online companies, it is the highest UKIP score that YouGov have shown so far. All the usual caveats apply: one
The Church of England have released a poll they claim shows the vast majority of people believe in the power of prayer, when it does no such thing. There is nothing at all wrong with ICM's actual polling, which asks people "Irrespective of whether you currently pray
The monthly ComRes telephone poll for the Independent is out tonight and has topline figures of CON 28%(-3), LAB 38%(-5), LDEM 12%(+4), UKIP 14%(+5). There are some significant shifts in all the party's figures, and unusual figures for most of the parties. The Conservatives
This week's YouGov poll for the Sunday Times is now up here. Topline results are CON 30%, LAB 41%, LD 12%, UKIP 12%, so again suggesting that the budget has had no significant effect on voting intention (though as I've said before, that's isn&
This morning's Sun had YouGov's first post-budget polling. General voting intention stood at CON 32%, LAB 41%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 10% so no obvious impact there. On the budget itself most of the actual individual measures were widely supported. The increase in the personal allowance and
The budget is fairly unusual as an event that people actually pay attention to, and which actually has the potential to change voting intention polls. I spend most of my time hear stressing that the ins and outs of Westminster politics, the speeches, the gaffes, the policy launches. Hardly and
This week's YouGov/Sunday Times poll is up here. Topline figures are CON 29%, LAB 41%, LDEM 12%, UKIP 12%. Economy The economic trackers are as bad as usual for the government - people think the government are managing the economy badly by 65% to 25%, 67% think
The monthly online ComRes poll for the Independent on Sunday/Sunday Mirror is out this weekend and has topline figures of CON 28%(-3), LAB 37%(+1), LDEM 9%(+1), UKIP 17%(+3), Others 9%(-1). It shows an increase in the Labour lead, putting it much more in line
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