After every by-election I write pretty much the same blog post. By elections tell us almost nothing about the state of public opinion, but are nevertheless extremely important in setting the political weather. This one is no different. First, why they don't tell us much. By elections are
YouGov have a new Scottish poll in yesterday and today's Times. Topline voting intention figures for Holyrood are CON 25%, LAB 15%, LDEM 6%, SNP 48% for the constituency vote; CON 24%, LAB 14%, LDEM 6%, SNP 39%, GRN 11% for the regional vote. The SNP obviously remain
An update on the boundary review. Back in September I published notional figures for the proposed boundaries in England & Wales. I've now updated those to include Scotland as well (this is partly because the Scottish boundary Commission published later, but it also took much longer to
We've had three new voting intention polls in the last four days. ICM's regular poll for the Guardian came out earlier today, with topline figures of CON 42%(-1), LAN 28%(+1), LDEM 9%(+1), UKIP 11%(-1), GRN 3%(-2). Full tabs are here. Opinium
Earlier this week NatCen released new polling on what people want from Brexit. The vast majority (90%) of people would like to keep free trade with the European Union. By 70% to 22% people would also like to limit the amount of EU immigration into Britain. Getting these two things
Donald Trump has won, so we have another round of stories about polling shortcomings, though thankfully it's someone else's country this time round (this is very much a personal take from across an ocean - the Yougov American and British teams are quite separate, so I
Almost as soon as the referendum votes were counted people were asking for polling on whether people regretted their decision. There is still a certain audience who seem downright desperate to find polling showing that people do not, after all, want to leave the European Union (and, I suppose, a
A quick update on two polls released today. The regular ICM poll for the Guardian has topline voting intentions of CON 43%(nc), LAB 27%(+1), LDEM 8%(nc), UKIP 12%(+1), GRN 5%(-1). Changes are since mid October. Fieldwork was conducted over the weekend, and the full tabs
The Evening Standard have published a new BMG poll of the Richmond Park by-election, suggesting a significantly less exciting race than some people thought (and than the Lib Dems hoped). Topline voting intention figures are: GOLDSMITH (Ind) 56% (down 2 from the Con share in 2015) OLNEY (Lib Dem) 29%
Donald Trump has been citing Brexit as the model of how he could win the election despite expections, his surrogates of how there might be a shy Trump vote, like Brexit. So what, if any, lessons can we learn about the US election from recent polling experience in Britain? In
Ipsos MORI have published their monthly political monitor and it shows another towering lead for the Conservatives. Topline voting intentions are CON 47%(+7), LAB 29%(-5), LDEM 7%(+1), UKIP 6%(-3). The eighteen point Conservative lead is the highest they've managed in any poll since 2009,
A referendum is not like an election. While the two sides of the campaign produced lots of literature supporting their view, there wasn't anything like a manifesto as such. How could there be, given those leading the campaigns were not those who would end up actually implementing the
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