YouGov's weekly poll in the Sunday Times this week has the first questions asked about Ed Balls as Shadow Chancellor - asked if his appointment will make Labour stronger or weaker, 24% of people think it will strengthen Labour, 18% think it will weaken them (though to some
Tonight's YouGov/Sunday Times voting intention figures are CON 39%, LAB 43%, LDEM 9%. The poll was entirely conducted after Alan Johnson's resignation and replacement by Ed Balls (though of course, that doesn't mean respondents would automatically have been aware of it), and almost
Two big resignations this week - Alan Johnson and Andy Coulson. What will be the impact? The immediate one will be virtually nil. People watching the Westminister bubble tend to consistently over-estimate the impact of comparatively minor gaffes and scandals, the public's awareness of the stories or even
Tonight's YouGov/Sun voting intention figures are CON 36%, LAB 43%, LDEM 10%, Others 11%. It's the second time we've seen Labour get a seven point lead, though it well within the margin of error of the five point Labour lead that seems to
A couple of weeks ago Angus Reid ran a poll that had a question asking about how people would vote in an electoral pact. At the time I said you needed to run a slightly more complex question to get a steer on it. Since then we've run
Lord Ashcroft has published a recontact survey of people who were contacted in the original Populus poll of Oldham East and Saddleworth voters. Full tabs are here and Ashcroft's own commentary here. The poll confirms the churn underlying the by-election result - of 2010 Lib Dem voters, only
Tonight's YouGov/Sun voting intention poll has topline figures of CON 39%, LAB 44%, LDEM 8%, Other 9%. The Labour lead of around about 5 points seems to be holding steady. For the record this is the highest level of support YouGov have shown since the general election,
Tonight's YouGov/Sun daily poll figures are CON 37%, LAB 42%, LDEM 9%. Leaving aside that single poll showing Labour and the Conservatives equal on 41% - which in hindsight must have been an outlier - there seems to have been a significant shift in YouGov's
There is a new TNS/BMRB poll (that is, the artistes formally known as System Three) of voting intentions in the Scottish Parliament in the Herald this morning. Latest voting intentions are: Holyrood Constituency: CON 9%, LAB 49%, LDEM 7%, SNP 33% Holyrood Regional: CON 9%, LAB 47%, LDEM 7%
At the general election there were around 10 or 11 pollsters producing regular voting intention figures. Since then things have (as usual after an election period) been far quieter. YouGov, ICM and ComRes have continued their regular polls for their respective media clients. Ipsos MORI have continued there regular monthly
Full tables for the YouGov/Sunday Times poll are now up here. On the regular trackers Ed Miliband has an improvement in his approval rating, up to minus 10 from his minus 19 a week ago, possibly an Oldham East effect. YouGov also asked if people trusted each of the
Tonight's YouGov poll for the Sunday Times has topline figures of CON 37%, LAB 43%, LDEM 9%. The daily polling this week has been a bit up and down, but within the space of a week we've had two YouGov polls showing unusually high Labour leads
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