Penultimate polls...

Anthony Wells

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Two days to go. The huge rush in final polls won't be until tomorrow, but there are still a fair number of polls out today. I don't think any of them are proper final calls yet - most companies will produce their eve-of-election numbers tomorrow or on election day itself (it's illegal to publish an exit poll before polls close, but it's fine to publish a poll conducted on the eve of election on the morning of polling day). All of today's look as if they are penultimate polls...

  • Populus today had topline figures of CON 34%, LAB 34%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 13%, GRN 5% (tabs). According to the FT we still have another Populus poll to come before the election.
  • Lord Ashcroft's weekly poll had topline figures of CON 32%, LAB 30%, LEM 11%, UKIP 12%, GRN 7%, coming into a much closer race than the rather incongruous six point Tory lead last week. Tabs are here). Ashcroft will have a final call poll on Thursday morning, so one more to come from him.
  • Survation for the Mirror have topline figures of CON 33%, LAB 34%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 16%, GRN 4% (tabs). Survation have said they've got new figures everyday before the election, so we'll be getting some new figures from them tomorrow too.

UPDATE: We now have three more polls out:

  • A ComRes telephone poll for the Mail and ITV has topline figures of CON 35%, LAB 32%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 14%, GRN 4%. Again, this is their penultimate poll, with one more to come (presumably tomorrow). Tabs are here.
  • There is also a second BMG poll for May 2015 (which in their case DOES appear to be their final call poll) topline figures are CON 34%, LAB 34%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 12%, GRN 4%. Full details here.
  • Finally YouGov's penultimate poll for the Sun has topline figures of CON 34%, LAB 34%, LD 9%, UKIP 12%, GRN 5% - still neck and neck. Their final call will follow tomorrow night.

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