Sentences with phrase «british election polls»

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If polls could not get the British election right, I doubt that they can get this one right.

A YouGov poll for the British Future think - tank found just 41 % of around 3.3 million 17 - to 21 - year - olds say they will exercise their democratic right in the 2015 general election.

But, polls show that at least 40 % of the British public, many of whom voted Labour in the last general election, agree with me.

Prime Minister David Cameron's promise to hold an in - or - out referendum on British EU membership (were the Tories to win the 2015 election) was ostensibly triggered in part by the pressure from UKIP in the opinion polls.

Using the British Election Study to Understand the Great Polling Miss Competing explanations have been put forward for the large polling errors on MPolling Miss Competing explanations have been put forward for the large polling errors on Mpolling errors on May 7th.

Its candidate, Laurence Depares, polled 125 votes (7 %) and came third, ahead of the British National Party and Liberal Democrats; [47] in a by - election in the same city's Swinton South ward on 7 January 2014 the party was fifth with 54 votes (3.7 %).

The British general election result came at the worst possible time for the polling industry.Over...

In this blogpost, I briefly explore the British polling experience and highlight the various explanations that have been provided for the UK's poor track record in predicting election outcomes.

Later that evening, the general election exit polls were released, causing shockwaves across the British political establishment and raising the prospect of not only a change of government, but a change of direction.

«Opinion polls show that his views on nuclear disarmament are today shared by the majority of the British electorate across the political spectrum - a fact that our politicians would do well to recognise as they head into a general election.

YouGov did the fieldwork for two academic election surveys (the British Election Study and the SCMS) as well as their daily polling, and all three used different question ordering (daily polling asked voting intention first, SCMS after a couple of questions, the BES after a bank of questions on important issues, which party is more trusted and party leaders) so will allow testing of the effect of «priming questionselection surveys (the British Election Study and the SCMS) as well as their daily polling, and all three used different question ordering (daily polling asked voting intention first, SCMS after a couple of questions, the BES after a bank of questions on important issues, which party is more trusted and party leaders) so will allow testing of the effect of «priming questionsElection Study and the SCMS) as well as their daily polling, and all three used different question ordering (daily polling asked voting intention first, SCMS after a couple of questions, the BES after a bank of questions on important issues, which party is more trusted and party leaders) so will allow testing of the effect of «priming questions».

The British Polling Council announced an inquiry into the substantial variance between the opinion polls and the actual election result.

The post-election wave of the British Election Study (BES) Internet panel allows us to take a closer look at possible causes of the polling miss during the recent General Election.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) came top of the poll — the first time a political party other than the Labour Party or Conservative Party had won the popular vote at a British election since the 1906 general election.

Mark Gettleson is an elections and polling analyst, focusing on British and American politics.

Less than a month out from the EU parliamentary elections and polls are showing either disenchantment or downright disinterest in the European project among the British public.

Following the negative reaction to his visit to British troops in Iraq during the 2007 Conservative Party Conference, [111] an unrehearsed conference speech made by David Cameron and an opinion poll showing Labour 6 % behind the Conservative Party in key marginal seats, Brown announced that there would be no election in the near future.

The subsequent Labour defeat was significant for several reasons: the party polled almost a quarter of a million votes more than the Conservatives and their National Liberal allies combined, won the most votes that Labour has ever won (as of 2017) and won the most votes of any political party in any election in British political history, a record not surpassed until the Conservative Party's victory in 1992.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who are aged 18 or over on polling day were entitled to vote in the local elections.

72 per cent of British adults believe Ed Miliband should spend more time outlining what Labour would do in government if they won the next General Election, according to an ITV News Index poll.

The poll, carried out last week by CommunicateResearch, found that 59 per cent agreed that «British troops should be withdrawn quickly» after today's Iraqi elections, while 32 per cent disagreed.

One member of this group, George Cadle Price, topped the polls in the 1947 election when he opposed immigration schemes and import controls and rode a wave of feeling against a British proposal for a federation of its colonies in the Caribbean.