Sentences with phrase «lead in the polls since»

Yet, just one point ahead at present, Labour have not enjoyed as much as a five point lead in the polls since last April, while the Conservatives have not been seven points ahead since shortly after the last election.

This is the first Conservative lead in a poll since that brief narrowing in mid-May.

National Republicans think a victory by McDonnell, who has led in every poll since June, would resonate well beyond Virginia because it would show that although many new, suburban voters have backed Democrats in recent elections, they're not wedded to the party.

The nine point lead is the largest Conservative lead in any poll since May 1992, and the largest lead in a MORI poll since January 1989 (although MORI polls prior ro 2003 aren't really comparable).

Not exact matches

Since the candidates last met, the GOP nomination fight has been marked first by businessman Cain's rise in national polls and then the firestorm over accusations that he sexually harassed women during his time leading the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

Since then, however, the «Brown bounce» that led the prime minister's advisers to urge him to call a snap election has disappeared as Labour slumps 13 points behind the Tories in the polls.

The SNP have had double digit leads over Labour in all the opinion polls since October, with the majority, including the three most recent polls, showing 20 + leads.

The Conservatives have seen a double - digit lead over Labour in the polls being dramatically cut since the bailout of banks by the government in October, the announcement of a # 20 billion fiscal stimulus by the prime minister and a 2.5 per cent cut in the rate of VAT.

The poll will be welcome news for the Conservatives, marking their best ICM result since they won a three - point lead in March 2012, just before the «omnishambles» Budget triggered a wave of government errors and hammered the Tories» reputation for competence.

I recall the same paper and company produced a similarly misleading poll in 1997, finding the Conservatives just 5 % behind Labour 10 days before John Major led the Tories to their worst defeat since Waterloo, Tony Blair securing a 179 - seat majority.

The three point Labour lead is the smallest recorded in a YouGov poll since January and confirms the narrowing of the Labour lead we saw in YouGov's immediate post budget poll.

Unlike ICM and YouGov's polls since the budget, there is no obvious Conservative leap here, in fact, their lead over Labour has narrowed and they are back under 40 %.

Since the Scottish referendum we've had Scottish polls from MORI, Panelbase, YouGov and Survation and they've been consistent in showing large leads for the SNP over Labour in Westminster voting intentions.

As Hillary Clinton opened up double - digit leads in several national polls, it became possible to imagine Democratic control of both houses of Congress — and with it, actual legislative gains on progressive priorities for the first time since 2010.

In the first poll released since two candidates emerged from Louisiana's jungle primary for governor, state House Minority Leader John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, holds a serious lead over Republican Sen. David Vitter.

The Labour leader needs to remind himself of this fact and also bear in mind that he can't afford to lose his bloc of ex-Lib Dem voters, who have ensured his party has had a poll lead since 2010 and who won't be keen on an opposition that brings back the nasty «British jobs for British workers» rhetoric of the New Labour days.

The MORI poll either reflected a remarkable turnaround for the SNP — showing Labour's lead dropping by 11 points in the constituency section since the previous MORI poll — or a rogue poll.

In an election widely touted as the most smoothly held Ghanaian election since 1992, the NDC was walloped in both the presidential and parliamentary polls by their arch-rivals, the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo led New Patriotic Party (NPPIn an election widely touted as the most smoothly held Ghanaian election since 1992, the NDC was walloped in both the presidential and parliamentary polls by their arch-rivals, the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo led New Patriotic Party (NPPin both the presidential and parliamentary polls by their arch-rivals, the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo led New Patriotic Party (NPP).

According to Ghanapoliticsonline, they have conducted three different polls since July this year with latest one as recent as 1st December 2016 where in all the three different polls, John Dramani Mahama has been in the lead with a relatively huge gap between him and the opposition NPP's twice defeated flagbearer Nana Akufo Addo.

It may be that UKIP have managed to open up a lead in Thanet South since November, but there were also substantial methodological differences between the two polls — the new Survation poll prompted using the candidates names, which may well have helped Nigel Farage as the most well known of the candidates.

Clinton (54 percent) expanded her lead over Trump (30 percent) by 4 percentage points in the Empire State since the last Siena poll of likely voters in mid-September.

Her backing from Labour supporters remains solid in the new poll — at 37 per cent — and she has led the race since the series of polls began.

It has now been more than a year since Labour led in an ICM / Guardian poll, while their faltering popularity has been confirmed by successive surveys.

Eddie Izzard was the leading candidate in the last poll but has since said he won't stand in 2016.

A Quinnipiac poll conducted in the Sunshine State earlier this month indicated Clinton's leads over Bush, Rubio, Paul, Christie, Ryan and Cruz had slightly increased since the beginning of the year.

I always urge some amount of caution with great big shifts in support, but in this case we have already seen Labour increasing their support into the mid 30s and the Lib Dems dropping into the mid-teens with YouGov's daily polling, so while it's not to the same degree (this is the smallest Conservative lead any poll since the election has shown), the trends are in the same direction.

At the moment the Conservatives are ahead in the opinion polls — amongst some of the pollsters it is their first lead since the fuel strikes.

Today's Guardian leader says» With the sole exception of September 2000, in the aftermath of the tanker drivers» fuel protest, this is the first ICM poll since January 1993 in which the Conservatives have led Labour.»

In actual fact it's the first ICM poll to show a Tory lead since... er... a week and a half ago in the Sunday TelegrapIn actual fact it's the first ICM poll to show a Tory lead since... er... a week and a half ago in the Sunday Telegrapin the Sunday Telegraph.

Populus tend to show the smallest Labour lead of the main pollsters, and their Tory lead was as low as this as recently as October, but the drop in the Conservative share of the vote is more notable — they have been steady on 36 % for the last four Populus polls, and this is their lowest level of support since prior to the local elections.

For example, last week's YouGov / Sunday Times poll, showing a ten - point Conservative lead, the highest since January, could have been dismissed as a rogue poll, had it not extended a trend detected earlier in the week, with the Tory lead growing steadily from four points to eight points in the days following Alistair Darling's Budget.

The eleven point lead for Labour in the capital represents a swing of 4.5 points to Labour since the election, suggesting a smaller swing to Labour than in the country as a whole (it would be the equivalent of a 2 point national Labour lead), and significantly less than YouGov's recent London polls.

In yesterday's Sunday Times / YouGov poll, Labour leads by 11 points — much the same as its leads since last March.

This is the lowest score our daily polling has given to the Conservatives since the General Election (although we have recorded a higher Labour lead in the meantime, on days when there was lower support for the Liberal Democrats or minor parties).

The Tories» majority in Corby at the last election was 1,951 but since then Labour has established a solid poll lead.

A drop of 3 points in Labour's lead, across 3 different polls suggests something has changed since the Autumn Statement.

Underlying party support in Britain is pretty stable — if you graph opinion polls over the last couple of years it's clear that the only events that have actually shifted political support have been David Cameron's election as Conservative leader, which moved the Labour and Conservative parties pretty much neck and neck, and the week prior to the local elections when Labour was hit by both John Prescott's affair and the foreign prisoner release scandal, since when the Conservatives have had a consistent lead.

(CNN)-- A new poll in the race to fill the Connecticut U.S. Senate seat being vacated by independent Sen. Joe Lieberman shows the party frontrunners increasing their leads since the last survey in March.

Cruz confuses weather and climate Trump jumped to the head of the pack in Saturday's poll, leading in Iowa for the first time since August with 28 percent of likely Republican caucusgoers.

Udall has led Schaffer in most polls since the race began last summer and recent results put him ahead by high single digits, though roughly a quarter of Colorado's voters remain undecided.

Steve Carell has maintained his top 3 consistency since the beginning of the poll and with word that he'll most likely stay in lead those numbers should stay strong.

also pointed to election jitters ahead of New Zealand's September 23 elections since the Labour and National parties that currently lead in the polls both have policies that may be seen as negative for the Kiwi.