YouGov/Sun - CON 32, LAB 43, LD 8, UKIP 9
Tonight's YouGov/Sun poll has topline figures of CON 32%, LAB 43%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 9% - very much the norm for YouGov's polls in the last week or two.
On a completely unrelated point, given my readership contains an awful lot of councillors, candidates, activists and other politicos, Michael Thrasher (of Rallings and Thrasher fame) has asked me to pass a message on to people who stood in the local elections this year. Over to him:
"Since 2006 The Elections Centre, based at Plymouth University, has been conducting annual surveys of candidates that stood in the May round of local elections.
Candidates are selected at random from the published nomination lists and are asked a range of questions about themselves, their motives for standing, their experience of the campaign and also attitudes towards different aspects of local government, particularly the numbers of women, younger people and members of Black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups sitting on local council benches.
These survey data are invaluable in providing a profile of who stands (and, of course, who doesn't stand), the type of local election campaigning that is being conducted and other information that expands our understanding of the local electoral process.
More than six thousand candidates (a one in two sample) were sent a letter in May inviting them to participate in this year's survey.
If you are one of those candidates but has yet not found the time to participate in the survey then there is still time to do so.
Simply, locate your reference number on the letter that you were sent and follow the instructions for completing the survey.
Many thanks to all those that have or are about to participate!"
