Last month BPIX and Populus were the only two pollsters not to put the Conservative party ahead of Labour, on their figures this month the Tories have pulled level. The topline figures are CON 38%(+1), LAB 38%(nc), LDEM 16%(-1). The poll was conducted between Thursday and Saturday,
A YouGov poll in Saturday's Telegraph gives us the first proper idea of what Liberal Democrat party members think of Charlie Kennedy's position. The full poll will be published on Monday but, given that there is a fair chance that it will be old news by
I'm normally somewhat dubious about opinion polls of sectional groups that try to say how teachers, accountants, plumbers or whoever would vote. You quite often see polls of students like this, and I've always been rather dubious about how representive they can claim to be. This
So that was 2005. What should we be looking for the political polls for 2006? At the moment the Conservatives are ahead in the opinion polls - amongst some of the pollsters it is their first lead since the fuel strikes. It's probably four years until a general
As the third party you don't actually get many opinion polls focusing on the Liberal Democrats, further details of the monthly ICM poll in today's Guardian include the first question related to to Charles Kennedy's recent troubles. Asked if, in the light of the
Gordon Brown Approval of Brown as Prime Minister YouGov: (1) Are you satisfied or disatisfied with Gordon Brown as Prime Minister? (2) Do you think Gordon Brown is doing well or badly as Prime Minister? MORI: (1) Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Mr Brown is doing his
One of the reasons I first started blogging about opinion polls was the newspapers' insistance on writing about the polls they commissioned themselves as if they were the only polls in the universe. Today's Guardian leader says " With the sole exception of September 2000, in the
The last two weeks's PMQs exchanges between David Cameron and Tony Blair have concentrated on education, with Cameron doing his best to try and drive a wedge between Blair and his backbenchers, and Blair doing his best to paint Cameron as a supporter of academic selection in schools.
This month's political monitor from MORI has one of the largest shifts I've ever seen in a voting intention poll - the topline figures are CON 40%(+8), LAB 31%(-11), LDEM 21% (+2). The nine point lead is the largest Conservative lead in any poll
YouGov's monthly tracker poll is in today's Telegraph and shows the Conservatives continuing to enjoy a slight lead over Labour. The topline figures with changes from YouGov's poll last weekend are CON 38%(+1), LAB 36%(nc), LDEM 18%(nc). It won't
Populus's monthly poll in the Times also shows a boost for the Tories, up three points under their new leader, however unlike ICM and YouGov this is not enough for them to overtake Labour. The topline figures are CON 35%(+3), LAB 38%(-2), LDEM 19%(nc). In
Two new polls in the Sunday papers show the Conservative party in the lead for the first time since April. The ICM and YouGov polls were conducted immediately after David Cameron's election. YouGov's topline figures, with changes from their poll for Sky News conducted immediately prior
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