Today the polling inquiry under Pat Sturgis' presented its initial findings on what caused the polling error. Pat himself, Jouni Kuha and Ben Lauderdale all went through their findings at a meeting at the Royal Statistical Society - the full presentation is up here. As we saw in the
The MRS/BPC Polling Inquiry under Pat Sturgis is due to release it's initial findings at a meeting this afternoon (and a final written report in March). While I expect much more detail this afternoon they've press released the headline findings overnight. As I suggested here,
The monthly ICM poll for the Guardian is out today and has topline figures of CON 40%, LAB 35%, LDEM 6%, UKIP 10%, GRN 3%. The full details are on ICM's website here and again come with some pretty candid and downbeat commentary from Martin Boon, who writes
On Tuesday the BPC/MRS's inquiry into why the polls went wrong publishes its first findings. Here's what you need to know in advance. The main thing the inquiry is looking at is why the polls were wrong. There are, essentially, three broad categories of problems
Survation had a new poll of Scottish voting intentions in the Holyrood election this week. As usual in the present Scottish political scene they show a towering SNP lead, with Labour second and the Conservatives in third. Constituency voting intentions are SNP 52%, LAB 21%, CON 16%, LDEM 7%; Regional
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I'm just catching up on the YouGov London poll earlier in the week for LBC - full tabs are here. Last May Labour enjoyed a solid swing in their favour in London and ended up nine points ahead of the Tories, they've largely maintained that support
Over the New Year the Times had an end of year YouGov poll, conducted in mid-December. The tables went up on the YouGov website today here. Topline figures were CON 39%, LAB 29%, LDEM 6%, UKIP 17%, GRN 3%. The rest of the poll, covering a lot of the trackers
2015 is unlikely to be remembered as a high point in opinion polling. In the months since the election I've spoken at various events and appeared on various panels, and at almost every one at some point there's been a question from the audience along the
ICM released their final monthly voting intention poll of 2015 yesterday, with topline figures of CON 39%, LAB 34%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 10%, GRN 3%. I assume it's the last voting intention poll we will see before Christmas. The full tables are here, where ICM also make an
Opinium have a new poll in today's Observer - topline figures are CON 38%, LAB 30%, LDEM 5%, UKIP 16%, GRN 5%. Tabs are here. The rest of the poll largely concentrated on leadership questions. Cameron's approval rating stands at minus 6, Corbyn at minus 25,
Yesterday there were two EU referendum polls showing the race essentially neck-and-neck. Today there are two more EU referendum polls, but both of these have REMAIN with a solid looking twenty-plus point lead. ComRes for OpenEurope have topline EU voting intention figures of REMAIN 56%, LEAVE 35% (tabs are here)
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