Sentences with phrase «exit poll results»

Exit poll results from Britain's general election are projected on to the BBC's Broadcasting House, London

According to exit poll results, Clinton lost support from voters who believed she was not as honest and trustworthy as the Vermont senator.

WHENEVER elections are held, interest always grows in exit poll results.

His method for studying the validity of elections is to compare exit poll results with official election outcomes.

Not exact matches

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.

The results are a stark contrast to multiple polls last week that gave the Leave camp as much as a 6 point lead, leading to fears that Britain was hurtling towards a «Brexit» - a British exit from the European Union.

Cohn argues that it's difficult for exit polls to be accurate because pollers don't typically ask a respondent's race, age or income — though they do estimate the former two — making it difficult to control for these factors when using such surveys to predict a result.

OK, so let's put those results to one side and assume the exit poll is still accurate.

The exit poll completely contradicted what all other polls had said, and all the analysis by experts before the result was futile.

While upstate New York waits for the Gaming Commission to approve up to four casinos, anti-casino group Save East Greenbush has released the results of an Election Day exit poll that asked voters how they felt about a gaming hall going up on Thompson Hill Road.

For a variety of reasons (including the impact of high levels of undecided voters in a specific poll), the actual result of an election contest may vary from the figures suggested by an opinion poll, even if the poll is carried out relatively close to election day, or on election day itself as in the case of exit polls, but the likelihood of such variation is not something that can be factored into this model.

The Liberal Democrats will take heart from this result - early exit polls indicated that the party was likely to suffer losses in spite of the surge in popularity they have enjoyed in the polls.

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.

In a later conversation Dietl laughed and suggested that perhaps his Facebook poll results pushed Massey to exit the race.

To make matters worse, on polling day, Galloway was reported to police for contravening section 66 of the Representation of the People's Act by re-tweeting the results of an exit poll while voting was still open.

He points out that the result is likely to be somewhere between the polls during the campaign and the exit poll.

Earlier, as the polling stations closed an exit poll suggested that the Conservative Party would get 316 MPs to Labour's 239 when all the results have been counted.

The picture that emerged from the exit poll just after 22:00 BST on 7 May predicted the Conservatives would gain 316 seats, but as results were confirmed they exceeded earlier predictions.

As the country waits to hear who its next president will be Tuesday incumbent Barack Obama or Republican hopeful Mitt Romney, a team of Post staffers will be analyzing exit polling and other data — from state and county election returns to updates from Post correspondents — to call results in key states in the presidential race, in addition to closely - watched House and Senate races.

Financial markets reacted positively to the result, with the pound sterling rising against the Euro and US dollar when the exit poll was published, and the FTSE 100 stock market index rising 2.3 % on 8 May.

The exit poll was markedly different from the pre-election opinion polls, [160] which had been fairly consistent; this led many pundits and MPs to speculate that the exit poll was inaccurate, and that the final result would have the two main parties closer to each other.

If exit poll is correct it sets up a big SNP Scotland v Tory England stand - off... which could result (hopefully) in full federalism...

As the results are coming in, and the exit polls are getting more and more confirmed, it becomes painfully clear that the opinion polls were woefully wrong.

Peter Kellner, the former President of pollsters YouGov said that if the exit poll was wrong, as suggested by results from Newcastle and Sunderland, the Tories could still have a majority of 80 - 100.

[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.

Curtice, who as president of the British Polling Council launched an inquiry into why opinion polls failed to accurately predict the result, also joked about how his exit poll proved to be correct.

Stones are being thrown in the ongoing battle to «Save East Greenbush,» after the anti-casino group released results of an election - day exit poll that found voters overwhelmingly against building a gaming hall on Thompson Hill Road.

General election results 2017 live: Updates and analysis as exit poll predicts Conservatives will be largest party - but no majority

They tightened during the campaign, but the result was still a big surprise to most pollsters and pundits - and May herself, who told the BBC she shed a «little tear» when she saw the exit poll.