We have the first few polls about the coalition coming in. YouGov's daily polling for the Sun this week found 56% approval, 38% disapproval on Wednesday, growing to 60% approval, 33% disapproval on Thursday. There was scepticism about how long it would last though - 28% think it
I have now updated the swingometers on the site with 2010 election data. Dull old text version here - http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/swing-calculator Lovely graphical version (but needs a plug-in for Internet Explorer) - http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/swingometer-map Enhanced graphical version with seperate swings for Scotland
As I'm sure everyone will know, Gordon Brown has resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour party (making Harriet Harman leader until a permanent replacement is elected), and David Cameron is now Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government. Cabinet appointments appear to be
YouGov's poll for the Sun this morning asked people their preference on the coalition deal. 20% wanted the Conservatives to govern as a minority, 33% wanted a pact or coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats (giving a total of 53% wanting a Conservative led government), 39% of
Second places We know the Liberal Democrats didn't end up increasing the number of seats they hold, but they did substantially increase the number of second places they have, and have more winnable marginals. The notional 2005 figures had the Lib Dems holding 62 seats and in second
There are two post-election polls in tomorrow's papers. A YouGov poll in the Sunday Times found 62% think that Gordon Brown should concede defeat, wih 28% thinking he is right to wait to see if the Conservative and Liberal Democrat negotiations fail. Asked who should form the next
Seats where the Conservative share fell There were 75 seats where the Conservative share of the vote fell. Their biggest falls were Westmorland and Lonsdale (the effect of Tim Farron building up a mountainous personal vote), Bromsgrove (presumably the result of Julie Kirkbride's expenses - though there were
We now have results from every constituency but Thirsk and Malton, where the election was delayed because of the death of a candidate. The final results in Great Britain are CON 37%, LAB 30%, LDEM 24%, Others 10%. Seats are Conservatives 306, Labour 258, Liberal Democrats 57, Others 28. The
I will be working on the BBC's election coverage tonight (behind the scenes, so no need to look out for me), so won't be updating the site. I'll be closing the comments when I head up to the studio in a couple of hours,
There is just the one exit poll these days at British elections. MORI and NOP used to do seperate ones, now they carry it out jointly on behalf of BBC and ITN (and for the first time at this election, Sky), so all three channels will have the same one.
Ipsos MORI's final call poll is now out, and has topline figures of CON 36%(nc), LAB 29%(-1), LDEM 27%(+4). Very much in line with the other companies, all but two of whom have the parties within 1 point of CON 36%, LAB 28%, LDEM 27%
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