You can read my commentary on the London mayoral race for Progress magazine here. Alas the publication deadline for the article was before the two polls released this week, so half of what I said is out of date - such is life. A very full list of candidates for
London Voting Intention 2008 Mayoral Voting Intention - First preference Survey End Date Johnson (%) Livingstone (%) Paddick (%) Berry (%) Batten (%) Barnbrook (%) YouGov/Evening Standard 30/04/08 43 36 13 2 1 2 YouGov/Evening Standard 25/04/08 46 35 12 2 1 2 Ipsos MORI/Unison 24/04/08 38
The full tables for the Ipsos MORI for the Labour party are now out. Asking ALL respondents, the figures were Livingstone 44%, Johnson 33%, Paddick 16%, Berry 4%. Once all but the top two candidates were elminated and second preferences re-allocated the result becomes Livingstone 51%, Johnson 41% (the figures
(For all polls on the London mayoral election go here) After waiting months for a proper poll on the London mayoral election, two come along at once (I've resisted a bendy bus metaphor!). Firstly there is a new YouGov poll for London Tonight, and unlike the January YouGov
ComRes's monthly poll has topline voting intention figures, with changes from their January poll, of CON 41%(+3), LAB 30%(nc), LDEM 17%(nc). The poll was taken between February 22nd and February 24th and the full tables are available here. ComRes tend to produce the strongest figures
Today sees the first polls taken since the nationalisation of Northern Rock. A snap Populus poll with a small sample size for the Times found that 49% of people agreed that it was right for the government to nationalise Northern Rock, with 40% disagreeing -although 69% thought they should have
ICM's monthly poll for the Guardian has topline figures of CON 37%, LAB 34%, LDEM 21%. The changes from the last ICM poll are Labour up 2, with the other two parties unchanged. The poll was conducted between the 15th and 17th of February. The poll continues the
Last week Mike Smithson broke the story of a BPC investigation into an Ipsos MORI poll carried out for Ken Livingstone. In the Evening Standard today Andrew Gilligan picks up Mike's story and has got some comment from John Curtice and Ben Page of MORI. The story begins
As usual the Sunday Times commissioned questions on a wide range of subjects, so here are some of the other findings from the weekend poll. The Beijing Olympics. 49% of people said they would support a boycott of the Olympics by British athletes in response to China's policy
Nick Clegg Nick Clegg Approval Ratings YouGov: (1) Do you think Nick Clegg is doing well or badly as leader of the Liberal Democrat Party? (2) Do you think that Nick Clegg is or is not proving a good leader of the Liberal Democrat Party? MORI: Are you satisfied or
After almost a fortnight without any voting intention polls there is a new poll from YouGov in the Sunday Times. The topline voting intention figures, with changes from YouGov's last poll back in January, are CON 41%(nc), LAB 32%(-1), LDEM 16%(nc). The poll was conducted
A sudden outbreak of voodoo polling this morning, or more to the point a sudden outbreak of serious newspapers reporting a voodoo poll as being meaningful. What's a voodoo poll? It's what Bob Worcester calls the little "press the red button to vote" polls
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