Questions asking about support for referendums are tricky. Almost whatever you ask, people support referendums. I suppose it's not really surprising - asking if people support a referendum on X is pretty much the equivalent of asking "Should you get a say on X, or should politicians
It is reported that the AV referendum will be held next year, on the same day as the local, Scottish and Welsh elections. I am sure we will have lots of detailed polling on the issue in the days and weeks ahead, but for the record I've collected
Alternative Vote AV Referendum Voting Intention - using current referendum question YouGov: (4) As you may know there will be a referendum on the 5th May. The referendum question reads as follows: “At present, the UK uses the "first past the post" system to elect MPs to the
There is a new ComRes poll out tonight for the Independent. Topline voting intention figures, with changes from their previous poll a week and a half ago, are CON 40%(+4), LAB 31%(+1), LDEM 18%(-5). As with ICM and YouGov, that represents a sharp drop in Liberal Democrat
There is also a new ICM poll tonight, carried out for the Sunday Telegraph. The topline figures, with changes from ICM's poll a week ago, are CON 41%(+2), LAB 35%(+4), LDEM 16%(-5). The figures are pretty much in line with those from YouGov tonight, with
YouGov have a poll for the Sunday Times tomorrow - full results are up on the YouGov website here. Topline voting intention figures, with changes from the Thursday poll, are CON 43%(nc), LAB 36%(+2), LDEM 16%(-1). Putting aside YouGov's poll on Tuesday which looked like
YouGov's post-budget poll for the Sun shows a broadly positive reception. Overall 57% think Osborne made the right decisions for the country as a whole, with 23% thinking he made the wrong decisions. 42% think he made the right decisions for them, 33% the wrong ones. Overall government
I've mentioned in various comments over the last few weeks that YouGov were still looking at their post-election methodology and what changes to make. It is a rather more complex task than one might think (especially since all of us in the team took breaks for holidays at
There is also a YouGov pre-budget poll in this morning's Sun. In MORI's poll they showed a drop in economic confidence, YouGov (who ask about the financial situation in people's own household, rather than the economy as a whole) found an even sharper drop,
There are two new polls out tonight, both looking forward to the budget. ICM in the Guardian have topline voting intentions of CON 39%(nc), LAB 31%(-1), LDEM 21%(nc). Changes are from the last ICM poll a month ago. ICM found support in principle for the government'
There is a new new ComRes poll in tomorrow's Independent on Sunday, topline voting intention figures stand at CON 36%(-1), LAB 30%(-3), LDEM 23%(+2). Changes are from ComRes's last voting intention poll at the start of the month, and show a slight widening
YouGov have some new questions up on their website on Afghanistan, the alternative vote and - most topically - the government's spending cuts. These are all questions that will be part of YouGov's regular trackers over coming months, replacing some of the pre-election trackers that were
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