Jonathan Isaby of ConservativeHome has (along with Tom Harris and Mark Pack) been running a campaign on an issue close to every political anorak's heart - making sure general election votes are counted overnight when the polls close, ensuring our traditional election night coverage, complete with Dimbleby, I
A reader emailed me to ask if we could have a look at the polling in Ireland ahead of the second referendum on the Lisbon treaty. A reader emailed me to ask if we could have a look at the polling in Ireland ahead of the second referendum on the
I don't normally comment on American polls, there's too many and plenty of people out there doing it well already. This one was just so off-the-wall I couldn't pass it by though. It's a poll by Public Policy Polling of likely voters
There's a fun little question in the Times today from their Populus poll. They asked people to rate how much they trusted a number of high-profile MPs, using a scale of 0 to 100. The highest rated one, not a huge surprise it has to be said, was
In the first four parts (1,2,3,4) of this article I looked back at the last four years and asked how we got where we are. This final part is looking forward across theremaining months before the general election and asking the obvious question of whether anything is
There is a new Populus poll in tomorrow's Times, their first since July having given August a miss. The topline figures, with changes from July, are CON 41%(+3), LAB 27%(+1), LDEM 18%(-2). The previous Populus poll was the last poll to show the Conservatives under
(for introduction and part one go here, part two here, part three here.) May 2009 - the expenses scandal Moving on from the credit crunch, the event that has really defined the last year in politics (or at least, the last six months) is the expenses scandal. The previous parts
(for introduction and part one go here, part two here) 2008-2009 The credit crunch Back at the end of 2007 I predicted that Labour would never be able to regain a lead in the polls under Gordon Brown (it's a prediction I still stand by - and so
The full tables for the YouGov/Sunday Times poll are up here. On tax and spending the YouGov/Sunday Times poll found more people trusted the Conservatives than Labour to cut spending without damaging services (though it was quite a small lead - far more people trusted neither). A substantial
There is a new YouGov poll in the Sunday Times. Topline voting intention figures, with changes from YouGov's poll a week ago, are apparently CON 41%(+1), LAB 27%(nc), LDEM 17%(-1) (I haven't seen it on the Sunday Times website yet, so await formal
There is a new Scottish Ipsos-MORI poll, apparently carried out for Holyrood Magazine but reported in the Sunday Express tomorrow. Topline voting intention figures are: Westminster: CON 18%, LAB 27%, LDEM 14%, SNP 33% Holyrood constituency: CON 15%, LAB 25%, LDEM 15%, SNP 38%, GRN 3% Holyrood regional: CON 15%
(for introduction and part one go here) Summer 2007 - Gordon Brown and the wasted bounce The Conservatives first established a steady lead in Spring 2006. The trigger was "Labour's black Wednesday" - the combination of several bad news stories that came within a day of
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