(For all polls on the London mayoral election go here) After waiting months for a proper poll on the London mayoral election, two come along at once (I've resisted a bendy bus metaphor!). Firstly there is a new YouGov poll for London Tonight, and unlike the January YouGov
ComRes's monthly poll has topline voting intention figures, with changes from their January poll, of CON 41%(+3), LAB 30%(nc), LDEM 17%(nc). The poll was taken between February 22nd and February 24th and the full tables are available here. ComRes tend to produce the strongest figures
Today sees the first polls taken since the nationalisation of Northern Rock. A snap Populus poll with a small sample size for the Times found that 49% of people agreed that it was right for the government to nationalise Northern Rock, with 40% disagreeing -although 69% thought they should have
ICM's monthly poll for the Guardian has topline figures of CON 37%, LAB 34%, LDEM 21%. The changes from the last ICM poll are Labour up 2, with the other two parties unchanged. The poll was conducted between the 15th and 17th of February. The poll continues the
Last week Mike Smithson broke the story of a BPC investigation into an Ipsos MORI poll carried out for Ken Livingstone. In the Evening Standard today Andrew Gilligan picks up Mike's story and has got some comment from John Curtice and Ben Page of MORI. The story begins
As usual the Sunday Times commissioned questions on a wide range of subjects, so here are some of the other findings from the weekend poll. The Beijing Olympics. 49% of people said they would support a boycott of the Olympics by British athletes in response to China's policy
Nick Clegg Nick Clegg Approval Ratings YouGov: (1) Do you think Nick Clegg is doing well or badly as leader of the Liberal Democrat Party? (2) Do you think that Nick Clegg is or is not proving a good leader of the Liberal Democrat Party? MORI: Are you satisfied or
After almost a fortnight without any voting intention polls there is a new poll from YouGov in the Sunday Times. The topline voting intention figures, with changes from YouGov's last poll back in January, are CON 41%(nc), LAB 32%(-1), LDEM 16%(nc). The poll was conducted
A sudden outbreak of voodoo polling this morning, or more to the point a sudden outbreak of serious newspapers reporting a voodoo poll as being meaningful. What's a voodoo poll? It's what Bob Worcester calls the little "press the red button to vote" polls
There is a new Ipsos MORI poll on attitudes towards cannabis here. The answers appear somewhat contradictory - asked how cannabis should be classified the most popular response was that it should be a class A drug, supported by 32% of respondents. 26% thought it should be class B, 18%
A new ICM poll for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust suggests 50% of people now think ID cards would be a bad idea, with 47% thinking them a good idea. The wording in the question was the same as used in the series of polls done for No2ID by ICM,
Various people in my comments have asked if there is any polling about attitudes toward Sharia law. Well, I don't know of any polls of the general population - I suspect that it would be overwhelmingly, uniformly hostile. ICM did, howeer, ask the opinion of British Muslims back
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