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YouGov's daily voting intention figures are CON 42%, LAB 36%, LDEM 14%. Government approval is back to +5 (41% approve and 36% disapprove), bouncing back from a very tight +2 yesterday. YouGov also had a new Welsh Assembly poll for ITV Wales out today. Constituency voting intention, with
Ipsos MORI have published their monthly politial monitor for Reuters. The topline voting intention figures are CON 40%(+1), LAB 38%(+7), LDEM 14%(-5). I always urge some amount of caution with great big shifts in support, but in this case we have already seen Labour increasing their support
There is a new ICM poll in this morning's Guardian. The topline figures, with changes from the previous ICM poll in late June, are CON 38%(-3), LAB 34%(+3), LDEM 19%(+3). That's a bouncing back for the Lib Dems from 16% in the previous
Last week the government published the wording that will be used in the AV referendum: "Do you want the United Kingdom to adopt the 'alternative vote' system instead of the current 'first past the post' system for electing Members of Parliament to the House of
Two polls in the Sunday papers: YouGov have topline figures of CON 41%, LAB 36%, LDEM 14% - which is still very much within the margin of error of the CON 42%, LAB 35%, LDEM 15% figures that YouGov have been floating around for the last few weeks. There is
The detailled legislation for the boundary review and the AV referendum is now out - if you are not a hardcore political anorak, you may wish to skip this post! For those who are left, here are the details. Alternative Vote is the more straightforward section. The referendum is May
We still haven't seen a post-election Populus voting intention poll (though to answer Mike Smithson's question here, I understand they are still doing them, they are just having a quiet period following the election), but Lord Ashcroft has commissioned them to do some polling in marginal
The overnight YouGov figures for the Sun had voting intentions of CON 43%, LAB 35%, LDEM 14%(!). The changes are well within the margin of error of the recent levels of support that the parties have been showing and it is the sort of figure we'd expect to
Peter Kellner has a new commentary on the government's approval ratings on the YouGov website here, looking at some of the cross-breaks behind the approval figures. The decline from their peak at around the time of the budget, when 48% approved and 27% disapproved, is indeed largely down
Last night's YouGov figures are now up on the website here. The latest voting intentions are CON 42%, LAB 35%, LDEM 15%, suggesting the 9 point and 3 point leads we've had over the last week were both just random variation, and we are still in
I had a busy time last week and was on holiday at the weekend, so here's a round up of some of the polls I didn't have chance to write about. YouGov voting intentions in their Sunday poll were CON 40%, LAB 37%, LDEM 15% -
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