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
The Times this morning has the latest YouGov voting intention figures - CON 42%(+3), LAB 28%(-2), LDEM 9%(+1), UKIP 11%(-2). While the size of the lead isn't quite as large as the seventeen points ICM showed earlier in the week, it's a
ICM's latest poll from the Guardian is out, with topline figures of CON 43%(+2), LAB 26%(nc), LDEM 8%(nc), UKIP 11%(-3), GRN 6%(+2) - changes are from ICM's last poll, conducted for the Sun on Sunday in mid-September. The seventeen point Conservative
There are new YouGov voting intention figures for the Times this morning, with topline figures of CON 39%, LAB 30%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 13%, GRN 3%. The Conservatives continue to have a solid lead and there is no sign of any benefit to Labour from their party conference (fieldwork was
A final post on boundary changes (at least until the Scottish proposals next month). This comes from a discussion I had with Mark Pack. Normally the thing we look at with boundary changes is what the party-partisan effect is, how the new boundaries would change the sort of swing that
I've been tied up with boundary changes and having a birthday at the weekend, so this is just a quick post to catch up with some of the voting intention and Scottish Independence polling I've missed. Looking at Westminster voting first, I've updated the
This is the third in a series of posts on the boundary review. There is a general overview of what is happening and why it's controversial here, a summary of what the effects are and some of MPs who are losing their seats here. This final post has
Overnight the English and Welsh boundary commissions released their initial proposals for the boundary changes - the English proposals are here, Welsh proposals are here. If you missed it, I discussed the wider background to the boundary changes and how they work yesterday. The initial proposals are very much as
On Tuesday the Boundary Commissions for England and Wales publish their provisional recommendations for Parliamentary boundary changes (the Northern Ireland commission published last week, Scotland is still to come). The review will replace the current 650 Parliamentary constituencies with 600 constituencies with more equal electorates. The recommendations this week will
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