Populus Euro-poll, and YouGov's European methodology

Today's Times has figures for European voting intention from the recent Populus poll - our first poll for the European elections from a pollster other than YouGov. The topline voting intention figures are CON 34%, LAB 25%, LDEM 20%, UKIP 6%, GRN 5%, BNP 2%. On a uniform

Labour and Conservatives both suffer in first post-expenses poll

The first poll since the Telegraph began reporting the details of MPs expenses suggests the public are taking a plague on all your houses approach (or at least, a plague on both your houses, since the Liberal Democrats haven't suffered). The topline figures, with changes from Populus'

Euro and county elections - polling and predictions

YouGov's poll in the Sunday Times also included voting intention figures for the European elections. Topline figures (with changes from when YouGov last asked back in January) were CON 36%(+1), LAB 25%(-4), LDEM 20%(+5), UKIP 7%(nc), Green 4%(-1), BNP 4%(nc), SNP&

More from Sunday's YouGov poll

As usual the Sunday Times asked questions on a wide variety of subjects, so here's some interesting highlights. On leader approval ratings, Gordon Brown's net approval stands at minus 46, Cameron's at plus 24, and Nick Clegg's at plus 15. That'

More Sunday polls

There are at least two voting intention polls in the Sunday papers, though so far we only have brief details. A YouGov poll in the Sunday Times has topline voting intention figures of CON 43%(-2), LAB 27%(nc), LDEM 18%(+1). The Conservatives are marginally below where they were

Snap ICM poll on MPs expenses

There is a snap ICM poll in the News of the World asking about reactions to the latest MP expenses revelations. Rather unsurprisingly, respondents overwhelmingly wanted MPs expenses published in full (91%), wanted them run by an independent body (91%) and thought that MPs standing had been damaged by the

A word about leadership polling

The Labour leadership bandwagon seems to be rolling again. So, do the polls tell us anything about whether Labour would be better off without Brown? The answer, I'm afraid, is often no. Questions in polls about alternative leaders normally take two forms. The first is a straightfoward "

System Three Scottish Voting Intentions

The Sunday Herald today had the results of a new TNS System Three poll of Scottish voting intentions. The topline figures were Scottish Parliament Constituency: CON 15%, LAB 29%, LDEM 11%, SNP 41%, Others 3% Scottish Parliament Regional: CON 13%, LAB 30%, LDEM 10%, SNP 40%, GRN 4%, Others 4%

Expectations for the next election

We would normally expect to see Populus's monthly poll for the Times go into the field over the weekend, but given it is a bank holiday we'll have to wait and see if they delay it a week. In the meantime Saturday's Times does

ComRes show 19 point Tory lead

ComRes's monthly poll for the Independent is out, and shows topline figures of CON 45%(+5), LAB 26%(-2), LDEM 17%(-1). Changes are from the last ComRes poll, carried out at the end of March. The figures are almost the same as yesterday's YouGov poll

Would Siralan beat Boris?

The YouGov/Evening Standard poll also included various questions about Boris Johnson's mayoralty. Boris's overall net approval rating stands at plus 25, with 46% satisfied with the job he is doing as mayor and 21% dissatisfied. Asked about specific areas, there was strong net approval of

YouGov poll of Londoners

Today's Evening Standard carries a new YouGov poll of London. The topline voting intention figures are CON 45%, LAB 33%, LDEM 16%. This represents a swing of 9.5% from the last general election, which is actually marginally lower than the swing to the Conservatives in the country