Sentences with phrase «asked voting intention»

It shows Nick Clegg holding on to his seat by a margin of seven points over Labour when respondents are asked a voting intention question that includes the names of the candidates standing.

As in 2011, Lord Ashcroft has asked voting intention twice in the poll, first asking a standard voting intention question, then asking people to think specifically about their own seat and asking how they would vote there.

First it asked people their voting intention using the standard question, THEN it asked them their voting intention again saying «thinking about your own constituency and the parties and the candidates who are likely to stand there, which party's candidate do you think you will vote for in your own constituency at the next general election?»

Both Ashcroft and ComRes asked a voting intention question that prompted people to think about their own constituency, candidates and MP to try and get at the personal and tactical voting that Lib Dem MPs are so reliant upon.

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 questions».

ICM also asked a voting intention question asking how people would vote assuming that Gordon Brown was Labour leader — like YouGov's poll earlier this week this showed Labour doing worse under Brown than under Blair; with Brown as leader voting intention would be CON 40 %, LAB 37 %, LD 18 %.

For example, when pollsters fail to prompt by party names when asking voting intention, the Lib Dem vote share falls by several percentage points.

The Lib Dems did not ask voting intention first, instead they asked people to rate Lynne Featherstone first.

YouGov has been asking voting intention in the AV referendum regularly since June 2010.

Not exact matches

The briefing was smoked out by an «Email your MP» campaign launched by the People's Pledge just 48 hours beforehand, as Labour MPs then contacted party headquarters to ask how they should respond to questions from constituents about their voting intentions on July 5.

We shall then review the way we ask our general election voting intention question.

However, I'm always slightly wary of constituency polls in Liberal Democrat held seats — the effect of incumbency and tactical voting is far higher for Lib Dem MPs, and when you ask a generic voting intention I think many people give their national preference, rather than how they would actually vote in their own constituency.

Asked by Louis is he would step aside as leader if it were for the good of the conference (this has long been viewed as a foregone conclusion, since Klein has made it quite clear he has no intention of voting for Sampson to retain his spot), Sampson replied:

The first is that normal voting intention questions do not include prompting by the party leaders names, so realistically you should only compare the results of a question asking «how would you vote with Milliband in charge» with one saying «how would you vote with Brown in charge».

There is a Populus poll in The Times tomorrow which does not appear to cover voting intention, but rather asks the public what they expect they outcome of the next election to be.

Polls asking referendum voting intention including the wording of the proposed referendum.

I am a member of You Gov and Populus and I can tell you I was rarely asked my opinion about voting intentions during the last election campaign.

The polling company Tamedia asked 20,000 people about their voting intentions on the next referendum day (which includes 3 other issues along with basic income).

Interestingly, when asked how unlikely people were to change their voting intentions, Scots came out as the most unlikely at 44 % compared to a nationwide average of 34 %.

Lord Ashcroft used the two stage voting intention question for the constituency poll, first asking people a generic voting intention question and then asking people to consider their own constituency and the candidates likely to stand there in an attempt to squeeze out tactical or incumbency effects.

This is not necessarily a bad thing — certainly I have grave doubts about polls done in Lib Dem constituencies that just ask a standard voting intention question.

Our new poll also asked once again about voting intentions for the National Assembly.

[166] Morris claimed that telephone polls that immediately asked for voting intentions tended to get a high «Don't know» or anti-government reaction, whereas longer telephone conversations conducted by private polls that collected other information such as views on the leaders» performances placed voters in a much better mode to give their true voting intentions.

The day after Cuomo made his intentions perfectly clear by asking his email list to vote for him on his fake Women's Equality Party line, he referred to WFP as the «Working Short People» party and «fringe.»

ICM also asked about voting intentions in the European elections, for the first time since February.

Of course — the same caveats that I used to attach to polls asking hypothetical questions about voting intention under potential Tory leaders apply to questions about potential Labour leaders as well — it may be a long time until we know what effect a Gordon Brown leadership would really have on Labour support.

One thing I missed from the ICM poll last night, they asked an AV voting intention question and found the contest neck and neck.

Possible differing approaches to polling the European election shouldn't make a difference, since Westminster voting intentions were asked first.

YouGov also asked how people would vote in a re-run between Boris and Ken — 49 % would vote Boris, 33 % Ken (respondents were not offered the chance of voting for other candidates, so this was not a genuine voting intention polls by any means, but since the London electoral system does redistribute votes between the top two candidates it offers a rough guide).

In a normal voting intention question in Con - v - LD seats the Lib Dems are in third place on 18 %, asked using the constituency specific wording they are on 31 %.

As well as the voting intention Populus also asked about various Parliamentary reforms.

More relevant are the hypothetical voting intention questions — respondents were asked how they would vote if Gordon Brown were leader of the Labour party, Charlie Kennedy leader of the Liberal Democrats and either David Cameron or David Davis were leader of the Tory Party.

As far as I can recall the last proper ComRes poll of London voting intentions was in March (there was one that asked which candidate people were inclined to support in September, but it was a small sample and wasn't really comparable), and showed Ken very narrowly ahead, so this suggests a move towards Boris though, given the difference in the question now that other candidates are known, I wouldn't read too much into that.

Like the Sunday Telegraph poll, ICM's Guardian poll also asked a theoretical voting intention poll with Gordon Brown as Labour leader.

If the leaders remain as they are now at the next election (which YouGov ask as a control question) people's voting intentions would be CON 34, LAB 41, LDEM 9 (when asked this way it consistently shows a slightly smaller Labour lead than usual — probably the effect of mentioning Ed Miliband in the question).

This is likely to be because best Prime Minister questions are strongly influenced by party allegiance, and the questions seem to have been asked as part of a standard ICM omnibus poll, which doesn't weight by past vote unless there are voting intention questions.

Using a split sample they asked three questions — one was a normal voting intention question.

Since Cameron became leader, every time a hypothetical poll about voting intention with Gordon Brown as leader has been asked, it has shown either the parties neck and neck or a Tory lead, and the majority have shown Brown doing worse than Blair.

ICM asked voters how settled they were in their current voting intention to establish how far voters will drift back towards their traditional affiliations and found a narrow majority of 51 % saying they were now «very certain» that their mind was made up.

Asked who they would like to see reach the final round of voting, 71 % of members said David Cameron and, on present voting intentions, he would obliterate Davis or Clarke in the final round.

Unlike many other polls asking about voting intention in the referendum YouGov's tracker on the Alternative Vote referendum starts with text briefly summarising what First Past the Post and Alternative Vote actually are.

There was no voting intention question, but asked how they would lean if Gordon Brown was Labour leader and each of the three candidates were Tory leader Cameron came out best, with 50 % saying they would lean towards the Tories, compared to 43 % with Davis and 41 % with Clarke.

One of the surveys being connducted by telephone as recently as Sunday, and subsequently leaked on the internet, asked 17 questions about the Liberal Democrats and asked people to rate a series of statements according to how likely they were to affect their voting intentions.

However a lot has been made of the fact that while both polls had an effort to take account of people's personal and tactical voting behaviour in their own constituency, they did so in different ways — Ashcroft asks a two stage question, asking people their national preference and then how they will vote thinking about the candidates and parties in their own constituency; ICM asked people the voting intention question including the names of the candidates standing in Sheffield Hallam.

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