On Ed Miliband's approval ratings

I want to write something more lengthy about Ed Miliband's polling, but I though this worth a short post in its own right. In the last few months there has been various rumbling on blogs and the media about Miliband's leadership, and polling figures have naturally

YouGov/Sunday Times - CON 38, LAB 40, LD 11

Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sunday Times has topline figures of CON 38%, LAB 40%, LDEM 11%. We've had four daily YouGov polls from 2012 now, so we can get a better handle on the position. Three out of the four have shown a Labour lead

2010 voters: where are they now?

In the week YouGov put up some figures comparing people's responses in May 2010 with their opinions now, based on the aggregated data from all the daily polls in November. The main purpose was to look at what has happened to people who voted Lib Dem in 2010,

YouGov/Sun - CON 38%, LAB 42%, LD 10%

Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 38%, LAB 42%, LD 10%. It's still worth waiting a day or two to see exactly where things settle down to and what the underlying average is, but already it's looking as though

YouGov/Sun - CON 39%, LAB 41%, LDEM 9%

2012's first daily YouGov poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 39%, LAB 41%, LDEM 9%. Labour are back in the lead, but it's still a much smaller lead than before Cameron's veto. Of course, this is just one poll and we&

Polling on the Iowa Caucus

I had a brief look at the race for the Republican nomination in the US Presidential election in November - back then it had been something of a series of Conservatives emerging as the "not-Romney" before fading away again to be replaced by a new "not-Romney"

Historical polls

After hours of slaving in the library Mark Pack has put up a spreadsheet of all the polls he's been able to locate since 1943 - you can download it from Mark's site here. It's relatively easy to find polls back into the 1980s

Voting Intention 1987-1992

Voting intention 1983-1987

Voting intention 1970-Oct1974

1970-1974 Polls Survey End Date CON (%) LAB (%) LIB (%) Con Lead Harris/Express1974-10-0934.64319.3-8.4 ORC/Evening Standard1974-10-0934.441.819.4-7.4 ORC/Times1974-10-08354417-9 Marplan/Sun1974-10-0833.343.819.5-10.5 Gallup/Telegraph1974-10-073641.519-5.5 Harris/Express1974-10-0633.543.520-10 NOP/Daily Mail1974-10-053145.519.5-14.5 Marplan/News of the World1974-10-0433.142.