Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 31%, LAB 44%, LDEM 9% and Others 17% (including UKIP on 8%), so has Labour's lead at 13 for a second day. There are also some new voting intention figures from TNS-BMRB, with fieldwork conducted
Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 31%, LAB 44%, LDEM 8%, Others 17% (including UKIP on 8%). Thirteen points equals the biggest Labour lead YouGov have shown since the election (it's been hit twice before, both in April). All the normal
Most of the time on UK Polling Report I write about what the polls tell us about public opinion. Only when elections come along do we get to do it the other way around, and see what public opinion tells us about the accuracy of the polls. As regular readers
Boris Johnson's victory in London has produced the predictable flurry of media speculation about Boris as a future leader. Both the polls in the weekend papers - YouGov in the Sunday Times and Survation in the Mail on Sunday had a series of questions comparing Boris and David
Tonight's weekly YouGov poll for the Sunday Times has topline figures of CON 31%, LAB 43%, LDEM 9%, Others 17% (including UKIP on 8%). Fieldwork was, as usual, conducted between Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon and, in practice, the large majority of the fieldwork would have been conducted
Tomorrow is the second round of the French Presidential election, the run off between the top two candidates, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande. YouGov have once again done a pre-election poll, which has figures of Hollande 53%, Sarkozy 47%. Tabs are here. Looking at all the final French polls there
Results overnight showed Labour gaining 470 seats, Conservatives losing 279 and the Lib Dems losing 129 seats. Labour have gained overall control of 22 councils, the Conservatives have lost 12 councils and gained 1, the Lib Dems have lost one of the four they defended overnight. Council elections are always
The polls are closed, results should start coming in a couple of hours. Those hardly souls stayiong up all night please use this thread to discuss the results as they come in. Eyes will be on the millions of actual votes cast tonight, but for the record tonight's
YouGov's final poll for the London mayoral election gives Boris a six point lead over Ken Livingstone. Full tabs are here. On the first round voting intention stands at JOHNSON 43%, LIVINGSTONE 38%, PADDICK 7%, WEBB 4%, BENITA 4%, JONES 3%, CORTIGLIA 1%. Once second preferences are reallocated
The Sun political team have already tweeted out the results of tonight's YouGov daily poll. Topline figures are CON 33%, LAB 43%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 8% - so very much in line with the 10 or 11 point Labour leads YouGov have been showing of late. Voting intention
Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of LAB 41%, CON 32%, LDEM 9%, so we are back to somewhat more usual figures after the unusually low Labour lead yesterday and the unusually low Tory vote share on Saturday. This morning there was also a YouGov
Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 35%, LAB 42%, LD 8%, Others 15%. This suggests the weekend poll with the Conservatives down at 29 was something of an outlier and I suspect this may be a similar outlier in the other direction, with
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