Polls so far this week

I've been a little bit run off my feet this week, so here's a brief rundown on polls over the last three days.

In terms of voting intention, the Populus poll on Monday and the three daily YouGov/Sun polls so far this week are below, and show things still trundling along with a Labour lead of seven points or so (the interesting spike in UKIP scores in the YouGov polls at the end of last week looks like it was just a blip after all).

Populus (29th Nov-1st Dec) - CON 33%, LAB 40%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 9% YouGov/Sun (1st-2nd Dec) - CON 32%, LAB 38%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 12% YouGov/Sun (2nd-3rd Dec) - CON 32%, LAB 40%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 12% YouGov/Sun (3rd-4th Dec) - CON 34%, LAB 40%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 10%

This morning two more of Alan Bown's Survation constituency polls were published, this time of Great Grimsby and Dudley North. These two are both Labour held marginals with the Conservatives in close second place in 2010, presumably picked because they were also the two Lab-Con ultra-marginals where UKIP performed most strongly in 2010 (UKIP got 6.2% in Great Grimsby, 8.5% in Dudley North). Both seats found a swing of 9 percent from Con to Lab - so slightly larger than that suggested by Survation's national polling in recent months.

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