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.
Not exact matches
In a Gallup
poll during the 2016 general
election, 51 % of Americans said the president should release all relevant medical information, an increase
from 2004 when 38 % held that view.
Quite apart
from the merits of the allegations, the Democrats are anxious to be seen as tougher on harassment to sharpen their profile in next week's special
election in Alabama, where Republican candidate Roy Moore still leads opinion
polls despite facing multiple unsavory allegations of his own.
Since there are no exit
polls for the referendum, unlike the general
election, this is our best gauge of voter sentiment until results start trickling in
from local counting areas around 1 a.m. BST.
But
poll participants were almost evenly split over whether risks
from Italy's March 4
election had receded.
In addition, this is an
election that Republican candidate Donald Trump has claimed is «rigged,» and where he has urged his followers to go to «certain sections» of states like Pennsylvania and monitor the
polls to make sure the
elections are not stolen
from him.
Only about a third of Republicans said they have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that votes on
Election Day will be counted fairly, according to recent
poll from the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The Electorate of Canning by -
election in Western Australia on September 19 will take a snapshot of the national mood, just over two years on
from the federal
poll.
That's because there is no official exit
poll, because most exit
polls are based on «swing» factors
from previous
elections, and there is no useable precedent.
In the tight three - way race of this year's federal
election, the focus has shifted
from the reliability of any single research firm to the wisdom of the collective pollster mind, with news outlets arguing over who can aggregate the
polls in the most reliable fashion.
As Britons headed to the
polls on Thursday, it's worth highlighting how the general
election could influence the course of that country's exit, or «Brexit,»
from the European Union — particularly as the race appears to have tightened in recent weeks.
In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition
from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the
polls once again for its parliamentary
elections on June 11 and 18.
According to the last seven
polls — spanning
from July 2014 to November 2015 — conduced by the French public - opinion institute Ifop, Le Pen has led each time when voters are asked, «If the next presidential
election was next week, which candidate would have the best chance of getting your vote?»
With only one month remaining before Vancouverites head to the
polls, The Vancouver Board of Trade has released results
from its 2014 Municipal
Election Survey, giving insights into some of the top priorities and concerns of Greater Vancouver's business community.Tue Oct 14 2014
Nearly half of millionaire investors are considering selling some of their stock holdings, and nearly a third may withdraw
from the market entirely depending on the results of the presidential
election, according to the findings of a new
poll.
The voter ID pilot has descended into chaos during the local
elections as constituents have been turned away
from their
polling stations.
The Strategic Counsel
poll referenced earlier, for example, found that 15 percent of voters ranked the environment as the most important issue, up
from three percent in the last
election.
That's an improvement
from a historic low in the last provincial
election in 2011, when 48.2 per cent of eligible voters went to the
polls.
This is just one
poll, and as we learned
from the May 2011 Federal
Election, campaigns do matter.
VANCOUVER, B.C. - With only one month remaining before Vancouverites head to the
polls, The Vancouver Board of Trade has released results
from its 2014 Municipal
Election Survey, giving insights into some of the top priorities and concerns of Greater Vancouver's business community.
-- «Goodbye, neighborhood
polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This
election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood
polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout
from the last midterm
elections.»
Everything I ever needed to know about voting and evangelicals came
from watching exit
polls during the presidential
election of 2004.
On
election day» a Sunday, of course» «
from the monastery gates came streaming forth a magnificent procession of the cross, with priests bearing crosses and icons... in a long line, singing hymns and in full ceremonial dress towards the
polling place.»
This new
poll shows pastors have a distinct view of the current
election cycle — one that's different
from people in the pews, said Stetzer.
While the
election would not have been a GOP landslide, in a normal
election year I think a reasonable GOP candidate would have led Clinton in the
polls from nomination to
election day.
I saw the same
poll numbers (except against Catholics) in the»60s when John Kennedy ran for president and the again (except for Muslims) in the»08
election when Keith Ellison ran for US Representative
from Minnesota.
After retiring
from football, former Druids and Wales international goalkeeper Harry Adams became a member of the National Conservative League's Cyclist Corps, an organisation that help organise hustings and
polling stations at
elections until the 1906 General
Election in the United Kingdom.
They are needed to drive people without cars or licenses to and
from the
polls on
election day.
Allies of convicted felon and former state senator Hiram Monserrate, who is now running for the NYC Council, say they will file a lawsuit against NYC Board of
Elections for moving
polling sites
from his stronghold in LeFrak City in Queens.
Kenyan authorities last week denied Mr. Mac Manu entry into the country to lead a team of
election observers
from the Democratic Union of Africa (DUA) ahead of Tuesday's
polls.
Residents of LeFrak City in Queens are suing the NYC Board of
Elections, saying their right to vote is being denied by the board moving a
polling site away
from the hotbed of support for convicted felon and NYC Council candidate Hiram Monserrate.
... after Greg Gianforte body - slammed a reporter the night before Montanans went to the
polls on
Election Day, the DCCC, Priorities USA and MoveOn all ran digital ads that included audio
from the scene.
The 2016
election may differ
from polling results because a decisive numbers eligible voters were:
After many postponements for other reasons, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NPP, called for a re-run of all
elections in the Manhyia North Constituency
from the
polling station level to the Constituency executive level before the
election of a parliamentary aspirant could take place.
At the last mayoral
election, several
polls showed Ken Livingstone on course to recover City Hall
from Boris Johnson.
While the other four candidates that are on his heels in the
polls have not been able to separate themselves
from each other, or
from their own parties past failures, all of them are betting on being able to secure the second spot in therun - off
election to be held in April.
This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated
from the evidence of the
polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European
elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people
from an ethnic minority background.
As I always say, a petition - free post-
election period will be the ideal that
election management should aspire to, just as it has been in the U.S except for the year 2000 Florida saga and in the United Kingdom where, for about 99 years, all
election results were accepted
from the
polling units as annouced up to the final point of declaration of a winner.
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.
The voter register is the most important tool for making
election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an
election, arose
from the physical presence of eligible voters at the
polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.
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.
Whilst the drop in Conservative support is comparatively small, the party will be concerned that such
polling, if reproduced at another
election, would see its ambition of an overall majority slip further
from its grasp.
In total we covered 480
polls from 15 different pollsters in the UK across the selected
elections.
This even applies to «well intentioned» initiatives and led several states
from threatening to arrest international
election monitors if they attempted to monitor
elections from the
polling place as only legal voters and
poll employees are allowed in the
polling place itself.
For instance, in their statement two days after the
election and before a winner was pronounced, the Carter Centre acknowledged that the electronic transmission of results
from the
polling stations to the 290 constituency centres «proved unreliable.»
In his view, the posturing of the biggest opposition party in mounting pressure on the Electoral Commission to accede to its demands with regards to the 2016
polls, was a ruse to turn eyes away
from the party's secret plan to compromise the
election in its favour.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com
However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge
from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the
polls in local and city region
elections; but also on a daily basis.
Still fresh and revived
from his triumph at the general
election - and to wipe out the Conservatives» majority at an
election called suddenly and unexpectedly by a prime minister who was twenty five points ahead in the
polls was a genuine triumph - Jeremy Corbyn's words will be received by renewed adulation
from his admirers and a new respect
from critics who he proved to be wrong in many of their outdated assumptions.
After collecting and analysing almost 6oo, ooo tweets through VOICES
from the Blogs posted in the three weeks leading up to
polling day, which discussed the primary
election, we can confidently say that this was not the case.
Other examples
from observers and social media included ballot boxes being stuffed with extra ballots in multiple regions; an
election official assaulting an observer; CCTV cameras obscured by flags or nets
from watching ballot boxes; discrepancies in ballot numbers; last - minute voter registration changes likely designed to boost turnout; and a huge pro-Putin sign in one
polling station.