The shock of the BBC
exit poll at 22.00 hours on election night was profound.
Within hours — minutes even — of the announcement of the shock BBC
exit poll at 10 pm on May 7, Ed Miliband was being informed in no uncertain terms why he had done so badly by an army of observers, critics and supposed party comrades.
Not exact matches
Bad news (for markets,
at least) is that ND's lead is razor thin — just 0.5 percent ahead of SYRIZA in the
exit polls.
In the first wave of
exit polls that came out
at 12:00 PM ET, the pro-bailout, conservative New Democracy party held a razor thin 0.5 % lead over the leftist SYRIZA party.
Twenty - two of the 26 companies are currently trading
at or above their offering price, according to the
Exit Poll.
VTSIOM's general director, Valery Fyodorov, said that previous attempts
at conducting online
exits polls had failed due to interference by malicious actors:
Voting ends
at 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, with
exit polls expected shortly after, giving Asian investors the first chance to react very early on Friday.
For example, when looking
at Super Tuesday
exit polls in the southern states several things are striking.
Once the
polls close
at 10 pm, the broadcasters will publish their joint BBC / ITV / Sky
exit poll and pundits will spend the next hour or so chewing over the findings.
The
exit poll didn't expect that, so here
at least they are outperforming it.
At five minutes to ten o'clock on election night, moments before the
exit poll was released, Labour headquarters was preparing to claim power, convinced that against the odds, they could combine with other parties to lock David Cameron out of Downing Street.
The
exit poll published
at 10 pm suggests the Conservatives could fall short of a parliamentary majority.
Known as 2016 NDC MP
Exit Group, the 49 - member group is composed of current NDC Members of Parliament who could not make it
at the Party's primaries and NDC MPs who would not be contesting
at the parliamentary
polls on December 7.
As an example we can take the
exit polls from the 2012 presidential race, we see that while Obama won in most of the educational categories (look
at the NYTimes) he did win by significantly higher margins in the postgraduate part of the population (+13 percentage points), lost college graduates by 4 %, and won people with some college by 1 %.
The
exit polls, released
at 10 pm on election night, were deeply shocking.
Ed Miliband fought a decent campaign, but, as with Neil Kinnock in 1992, something went badly wrong
at the end — and unlike that election, it wasn't the
exit poll.
While the opinion
polls might have been volatile recently, the broadcasters»
exit poll - released when voting closes
at 10 pm - has a very good record in predicting the overall result since the BBC and ITV started pooling data in 2005.
After arriving
at 6.10 pm — ten minutes late —
at committee room 14, Harman began by telling the meeting that as soon as the
exit poll was published on election night, she knew that her constituents would «take a thumping» under the Tory government.
BONE: I believe there should be a referendum on gay marriage
at the same time as the
poll on the
exit from the European Union.
But fundamentally,
exit polls are simply more reliable than phone or internet
polls: they take place
at the
polling stations by people who have certainly voted.
It; s not strictly an
exit poll actually - it was done after people had voted, but not
at the
polling station.
Harriet Harman has admitted that the shock
exit poll published
at 10 pm on election day was «a body blow none of us will ever forget».
A surprising
exit poll, collected by Ipsos MORI and GfK on behalf of the BBC, ITN and Sky News, was published
at 10 pm
at the end of voting: [158]
David Firth (statistician),
at the University of Warwick, invented the BBC election
exit poll.
Party officials were sceptical
at the initial
exit poll by Mori and NOP, which canvassed more than 16,000 people, saying it did not include the regional swings.
David Cameron takes step closer to office after general election
exit poll puts Conservatives
at 307 seats and Labour
at 255
The 4 per cent swing to the Tories in the key seat of Nuneaton
at about 2.30 am brought the nightmare scenario of the BBC
exit poll a decisive step closer to reality.
[17] Throughout the day GfK NOP and Ipsos MORI conducted an
exit poll on behalf of the BBC, Sky and ITV news services — the results of which were announced as the
polls closed
at 10:00 pm.
The only thing brighter than Miriam Gillett - Kunnath's multicolored scarf was the smile on her face as she
exited the
polling station
at North Central Church on Buckley Road this morning.
«When I look
at how the Looter Government is preparing its final
exit after its miserable and unprecedented defeat
at the
polls, I am left in no doubt that Ghana would have been bankrupted with another four years of this looter Government in power,» Mr. Amidu stated.
New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner
exits the voting booth with his son, Jordan Weiner, after voting
at his
polling station on September 10, 2013 in New York City.
In a column for the paper she said she didn't believe the
exit poll when it was released
at 10 pm on election day.
The joint BBC / ITV / Sky
exit poll, taken
at dozens of
polling stations across the UK, and announced as the real
polls closed, predicted a hung Parliament, with the Conservatives just short of an overall majority and the Lib Dems not doing much better than they had in 2005.
Only one
poll got it right: the
exit poll announced immediately after voting ended
at 10 pm last night.
Any analysis of
exit polling reveals a welter of numbers whose meaning remains slightly elusive, with issues or candidate characteristics described as «very important,» «somewhat important,» or «not important
at all» by voters.
The most critically - acclaimed movie of the summer, a pulse pounding historical action picture with high
exit -
polling scores as well, may very well repeat
at the top of the box office this weekend.
Noah may have avoided becoming a 21st - century Waterworld
at the box office but
exit polls have revealed a lukewarm response from audiences.
In the 2006 congressional elections,
exit polls didn't address the question of education
at all.