Final
London elections poll shows Boris Johnson defeating Ken Livingstone in run - off vote for Mayor (Comments: 0)
YouGov's final
London elections poll for the Evening Standard shows Boris Johnson defeating Ken Livingstone in the run - off vote for Mayor by 53 - 47 % - the same margin by which he won four years ago.
Not exact matches
The current Conservative mayor Boris Johnson won two
elections in
London, despite his own party then suffering in the
polls, precisely by mobilising those votes in outer
London.
Even in
London where there were no other
elections apart from the AV referendum, over a third of voters managed to get out of bed and make it to the
polling booths.
If the
London Mayoral
elections are as close as the
polls currently show, then the result will come down to 2nd preferences.
The Mavens of
London research, which was originally reported by Politics.co.uk, combines traditional
polling data with information about people's online searches for their local candidates to come up with predictions of the
election result.
However, today's
poll suggests Khan is well on course to winning the
London mayoral
election.
There may yet be a final
London mayoral
election poll from Ipsos MORI and I understand there will be one from YouGov, so we may yet get
polls that show closer figures, but on the figures we've got at the moment there is an almost unbridgable gulf between them.
After waiting months for a proper
poll on the
London mayoral
election, two come along at once (I've resisted a bendy bus metaphor!).
The new YouGov
poll indicates the party is on course for the best performance in
London local
elections of any party for more than 40 years, but still may not capture the Tory flagship councils in Wandsworth and Westminster.
A new YouGov
poll for ITV
London has topline voting intentions for the
London mayoral
election of Livingstone 44 % -LRB--1), Johnson 40 % -LRB--4), Paddick 8 % (+1).
Boris Johnson has seen his
poll lead over the mayor dip ahead of May's
London election although he still enjoys a firm advantage.
Eventual Winners The EIU special reports concluded last month, separately prepared on country - by - country analysis ahead of the
elections and released from
London over the weekend, said Nana Akufo - Addo will become the eventual winner and President of Ghana after an «acrimonious» contest in the November general
election, while Mrs. Clinton will defeat Mr. Trump in the US
polls.
«What you have to remember is out of the 1500 people I employ in
London, only three of them are doing
election polling.
More interesting are the implications of this
poll for the Euro
Elections — London being one of only two English Euro regions where there are no local elections on
Elections —
London being one of only two English Euro regions where there are no local
elections on
elections on 4th June.
As it is, the next political events we have too look forward to aren't about Great Britain anyway, but the Scottish, Welsh and
London elections next year — I'm sure
polling on them will start firing up in the next few months.
Phil Cowley at Queen Mary University
London has released a new YouGov
poll ahead of the
London local
elections next month.
A YouGov
poll published in yesterday's Evening Standard looked at the likelihood of Conservative gains in
London at the general
election.
The presidential
election was fixed for 14 February 2016, until Sambo Dasuki, then President Goodluck Jonathan's National Security Adviser (NSA), went to Chatham House,
London, to launch the plot that would climax in the postponement, till 30 March 2016, of the
polls for alleged security reasons.
Prime Minister Brown suffered some crushing defeats at the local
election polls last week, while Boris Johnson's victory over Labour's Ken Livingston as
London mayor added to his political woes.
The YouGov local
election poll in the Sun today is based on just repondents in those areas that actually have local
elections in May — that is, excluding
London, Scotland, Wales and the 13 or so councils who do not have
elections this year (primarily Cornwall, Durham, the Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire, with a handful of district councils with unusual electoral cycles).
The
London Evening Standard today quoted unnamed «insiders» as saying that Brown was «seriously considering» a June 4
poll to coincide with the local and European
elections.
Aside from mid term
polls like European and
London mayoral
elections, where some pollsters have done far better than others, this will be the first time the post-1992
polling methods are tested in an environment with the Conservatives ahead.
YouGov's first
polling for the 2012
London mayoral
election has Boris Johnson only narrowly ahead on first preferences.
The Times has a new Populus
poll of the
London mayoral
election, which gives Boris Johnson his biggest lead so far.
With just two weeks until
London's mayoral
election, recent
polling for the
London Evening Standard shows Boris Johnson on course to remain mayor, but puts Labour ahead in
London assembly
The eleven point lead for Labour in the capital represents a swing of 4.5 points to Labour since the
election, suggesting a smaller swing to Labour than in the country as a whole (it would be the equivalent of a 2 point national Labour lead), and significantly less than YouGov's recent
London polls.
The Evening Standard has published the penultimate YouGov
poll for this year's
London mayoral
election.
In this electoral cycle, the
London Mayoral
election stands out as the best measure of whether the
polls had improved on their diminished reputation, due to the similar party competition.
The
elections held last Thursday, 5 of May — to elect the
London Mayor,
London Assembly, Northern Ireland and Welsh Assemblies as well as Scottish Parliament among others — were the first time
polls were to be tested since their blunder in the 2015 Westminster
elections.
Dr Kenneth Bunker looks at how
polls fared in the
London Mayor
election, and what the long - term prospects for
election polling are.
Exit
poll results from Britain's general
election are projected on to the BBC's Broadcasting House,
London
And meanwhile UKIP are
polling at 8 — 9 % and people are seriously betting on an independent coming third in the
London Mayoral
elections.
«The inconvenient truth for Owen Smith is that Labour
polled ahead of the Tories in May's local
elections; and we have won all parliamentary by -
elections under Jeremy's leadership, as well as having won mayoral
elections in Bristol,
London, Liverpool and Salford.
The Evening Standard
poll today shows a 3 % swing from Con to Lab since the
London Borough Council
Elections in 2014.
In addition to the council
polls, there have been a series of mayoral
elections in
London boroughs.