ComRes's monthly poll for the Independent has topline voting intentions - with changes from their last poll - of CON 46%(+1), LAB 24%(nc), LDEM 18%(+2). The bigger picture of a Tory lead around 20 points is still unchanged, though for the record this is the
I don't normally post on election results, I'm a bit of purist about it - as Danny Finkelstein posted more lengthily back before the local elections, local elections, by-elections and so on aren't representative so don't actually tell us much we don&
Ipsos-MORI's monthly political monitor is now on their website here. The topline voting intentions, with changes from last month, are CON 47%(+2), LAB 27%(-1), LDEM 15%(-1). The poll was conducted between the 18th and 20th July. The rest of the poll is the usual litany
Mike Smithson has managed to get hold of the tables for the Progressive Scottish Opinion poll in Glasgow East. Looking at the tables, Progressive Scottish Opinion do not appear to have used any political weighting when weighting their sample. Politically their raw sample appears to have been pretty much the
ICM's monthly poll for the Guardian has topline voting intention figures, with changes from their last poll, of CON 43%(-2), LAB 28%(+3), LDEM 19%(-1). The poll was conducted between the 18th and 20th July. We're getting some contradictory messages from the polls this
Yesterday's News of the World included an ICM poll of under 25s about knife crime. Considering that the British Crime Survey doesn't include juvenile crime, and that while actual stabbing will very probably end up as recorded crime figures, people carrying knives, or waving knives about
ComRes have a new poll in the Independent on Sunday. The topline voting intention with changes from the last ComRes poll are CON 45%(-1), LAB 24%(-1), LDEM 16%(-2) (the drop in support for the main parties, interestingly enough, seems to have benefited the Green party, up on
Progressive Scottish Opinion have produced a second poll for the Glasgow East by-election. As with ICM, it shows a substantial Labour lead with voting intentions of LAB 52%, SNP 35%, CON 7%, LDEM 3%. The poll was conducted between the 14th and 17th July, and interviewed 509 people. Progressive Scottish
Last weekend the Sunday Telegraph published an ICM poll conducted in Glasgow East showing Labour ahead by 14 points. It's a good lead, but a lot of people seem unconvinced by the poll. Let's look at the reasons. Firstly, the weighting of the poll. Some people
Today's Guardian reports an ICM poll from last week that showed that British voters would overwhelmingly prefer to see Barack Obama as the next President of the USA, by 55% to 11% for John McCain. I've seen a couple of polls ask about this (it'
The monthly YouGov poll for the Sunday Times has topline voting intention figures, with changes from YouGov's last poll, of CON 47%(+1), LAB 25%(-3), LDEM 18%(+3). The poll was conducted on the 10th and 11th July. It looks like a drop for Labour, but the
ICM's poll in Glasgow East has voting intentions of CON 7%, LAB 47%, LDEM 9%, SNP 33%. The caveats I mentioned in the post below about the Crewe and Nantwich polls and the trickiness of polling in Glasgow East all apply - but the 14 point Labour lead
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