Not exact matches
Reasons have since been offered for the high - profile provincial misses — in the case
of Alberta, a last - minute swing in
voting intentions from Wildrose to the PCs; in B.C., the failure
of those who said they'd
vote NDP to show up on
election day.
They may account on some Trump supporters hiding their
vote intention because
of peer pressure / embarrassment using historical data, but if peer pressure is higher in this
election than in previous
elections it is difficult to tune up that effect correctly (how can you measure peer pressure to adjust your model before the
election day?).
The graphs below show how changes in the shares
of council seats won by each party are strongly correlated with changes in general
election vote intentions.
The graph below shows the BBC Projected National Share
of the
vote (PNS) from local
elections together with general
election vote intention from the polls for the month before each round
of local
elections.
The graph below shows the latest What Scotland Thinks / ScotCen Poll
of Polls
of voting intentions in Scotland for the 2015 UK general
election and how it has evolved over time.
Much like yesterday's Panelbase poll in The Sunday Times today's poll suggests there might have been some narrowing
of the SNP lead in
voting intentions for May's Westminster
election.
Its standing in polls
of vote intentions for Scottish Parliament
elections averaged just 16 %, while its reading on
vote intentions for a Westminster
election were, at 14 %, even slightly worse.
UKIP's share
of general
election vote intention, at 14 % last week, is much more muted than the 23 % they achieved in the Projected National Share
of the
vote (PNS) from the local
elections.
The latest poll
of voting intentions for Thursday's
election, conducted by Survation for the Daily Record, is
of particular interest for two reasons.
Last week a poll from Survation suggested that the huff and puff
of the campaign, including not least two televised leader debates that took place either side
of the Easter weekend, had not made much difference to the balance
of voting intentions for next month's Scottish Parliament
election.
To get the nomination, you need 25 percent
of the
vote to get on the ballot, I think 40 percent to get the official designee or nominee
of the party, so you want someone that would have the
intention to continue to run and then that person would be on the ballot in September in the primary formally, and then in November in the general
election,» Smikle explained.
The net effects
of this trend are reflected in the
vote intention polls, but geographical implications for this year's local
elections are not part
of my model.
The Murdoch press empire decided to rain on the Scottish Labour leadership parade on Saturday by releasing a YouGov poll in The Sun and The Times showing the party is 20 points behind the SNP in
voting intentions for next Westminster's
election — an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk
of its Commons seats.
The poll's figures for general
election voting intentions are not as bad but still not good: although the headline figures are Con 31 %, Lab 36 %, LD 9 %, UKIP 15 %,
of those who
voted Labour in 2010, 9 % are said to be intending to
vote UKIP.
This is certainly a story that fits the main pattern
of change in the general
election vote intention opinion polls.
«For the first time in a poll on
voting intentions in an
election of a national character, the NF is clearly ahead,» an Ifop spokesperson said.
The forecasting model works by combining the number
of seats won by parties in the previous
election with
vote intentions data from polls conducted six months prior to the
election — in this case the data is from November 2014.
An ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph
of voting intentions in a general
election put Labour on 22 points, 18 behind the Conservatives, who are on 40 points, and three behind the Liberal Democrats on 25.
There is also the question
of Gordon Brown —
voting intention figures 4 years from a general
election are
of little importance at the best
of times, let alone when we know the sitting Prime Minister will probably change before the next
election.
The actual
voting intention figures, with don't knows and won't
votes excluded, is CON 49 %, LAB 20 %, LDEM 21 %, Others 10 % — representing a swing
of 10.9 % from the last general
election.
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).
And while UKIP has been consistently running at 14 - 15 % in
voting intentions over the last year, a similar score in the general
election of next year could bring a meagre return in seats.
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.
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.
In the end, Meng won an absolute majority
of the
vote against Lancman and Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley, and a week after the November
election the outgoing Assemblyman announced his
intention to run for the 24th Council District, held for three terms by the term limited James Gennaro.
Seats that have had a by -
election are changed by it, so Eastleigh is probably representative
of nothing but itself, but for the record Ashcroft found
voting intentions there
of CON 27 %, LAB 10 %, LDEM 39 %, UKIP 22 %.
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
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
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».
In two
of the seats polled, Thanet South and Thurrock, UKIP were ahead in
voting intentions, which will be enormous help for them in convincing voters they are a viable general
election vote in the local area.
In this set
of seats there is no consistent pattern in the difference between the standard
voting intention question («if there were a general
election tomorrow, which party would you
vote for?»)
A YouGov poll for the Daily Telegraph shows the SNP ahead
of Labour in
voting intentions for a UK general
election for the first time in the party's history.
It is better to turn a blind eye to Tories who
vote UKIP in June but have every
intention of supporting Conservatives in the real contest - the General
Election.
Just realised I've missed an Ipsos MORI poll
of Scottish
voting intentions here, MORI's first Scottish
voting figures since the general
election.
Our latest
voting intention figures for the Sunday Times have the Liberal Democrats at 12 %, their lowest level
of support since 2007 when the party removed Menzies Campbell as leader, and a halving
of their support since the General
Election.
Voting
intention figures are more interesting — the Lib Dems secured 23 %
of the
vote at the general
election.
More interesting, given we are only a few months away from the London council
elections in May, are local government
voting intentions of CON 28 % (+2), LAB 54 % (+17), LDEM 11 % (+1), GRN 4 % -LRB--6) UKIP 2 % -LRB--10).
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 the highest «none
of the above»
vote since the time
of the 2009 European
elections, when successes for UKIP, the BNP and the Greens in that proportional -
voting contest transferred briefly into well - above - average general
election voting intentions.
The narrow two point lead held by the Conservatives would be enough to deprive Labour
of an overall majority, but it is nowhere near the sort
of lead the Conservatives would require to win a majority at an
election — still, on
voting intention Cameron does seem to have made a difference.
This is because a significant number
of Londoners — 8 %
of our total sample — are Labour supporters (according to their General
Election voting intention) who prefer Boris as mayor.
However well
intentioned, Labour can't get itself elected by pleading the cause
of needy non-voters: so
elections depend on ever fewer swing
votes in a diminishing number
of marginals.
«While it's well -
intentioned by them,» said Mike Reich, a member
of the Queens party who presided over the meeting, «the executive committee has
voted to table this because the additional expenses would be astronomical and the restrictions on it would hamper the ability
of the political party to operate in an
election time where you have to make quick expenditures in response to Republicans — as you know, Republicans can drop a million dollars in a district in a blink
of an eye — and we have to be able to respond.»
BPIX don't give the detailed
voting intention figures, but at present Labour are 7 points ahead
of the Conservatives (whatever that may mean — we don't know how people are answering the standard
voting intention — when they say how they'd
vote in a General
Election tomorrow are they already taking into account who they expect to be the next leader?
Being utterly bored with what passes for news in the media, in particular the endless opinion polls supposedly showing
voting intentions 3 months before the general
election — and how many
of those questioned actually know why they will be
voting for the party they choose; even more importantly, how many
of those questioned even understand what democracy is or how politics works in this country — I thought a little light relief was called for.
«Surveying over 10,000 people, the poll gives an insight into
voting intentions for the next Scottish
elections, opinions
of party leaders and achievements
of the Scottish Parliament, while putting support for independence at 26 per cent, the no
vote at 65 per cent and just 10 per cent undecided.»
All
of this suggests Labour should enjoy some healthy leads in national
voting intention polls and the way the
vote was distributed in the UK at the last
election, that should translate into an easy Labour majority if repeated at an
election....
A YouGov poll carried out for the Sun which took the views
of more than 10,000 people gave the Tories a 12 - point lead over Labour, by 42 % to 30 %, on
voting intentions if there were a general
election tomorrow.
Also from Ipsos MORI was this curious poll
of voting intentions in the Police Commissioner
elections.
Ahead
of the local
elections Government would do well to remember the impact school funding had on the
voting intentions of the public during the general
election.»
I have formally announced my
intention to hand off responsibility for the Sudbury Writers» Guild newsletter, but
elections (newsletter - er isn't an elected position, but volunteer positions are filled at the same time as elected ones are
voted upon) aren't until the May meeting at the end
of the month.
The surveyed elector may change his or her mind between the survey and the
election, they may be deliberately lying, they have no
intention of actually
voting on the day.