Sentences with phrase «most opinion polls»

Despite most opinion polls predicting that the Conservatives and Labour were neck and neck, the Conservatives secured a surprise victory after having won a clear lead over their rivals and incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron was able to form a majority single - party government with a working majority of 12 (in practice increased to 15 due to Sinn Féin's 4 MPs» abstention).

Most opinion polls had shown Labour comfortably ahead of the Tories for more than a year before Thatcher's resignation, with the fall in Tory support blamed largely on her introduction of the unpopular poll tax, combined with the fact that the economy was sliding into recession at the time.

The Labour Party has tended to fall below the ten percent level in most opinion polls over the past few years, as is especially evident in this Ispsos - MRBI opinion poll.

But for weeks now most opinion polls have pointed to a Lib - Con alliance.

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

The Harris Poll Reputation Quotient, which has been conducted since 1999, is among the most expansive surveys of consumer opinions about companies.

Some studies (and opinions) suggest that brand loyalty is a concept that's dying; for example, 79 percent of the millennials polled in one survey ranked quality as their most important purchasing decision, rather than the name brand involved.

Each year, the Harris Poll conducts its «Reputation Quotient» study, examining public opinion on the 100 most visible companies in America.

While an opinion poll on Saturday gave Fine Gael a one - point lead over Fianna Fail and suggested another minority government as the most likely outcome, Dublin City University politics lecturer Eoin O'Malley said Monday's events would also hurt them.

Opinion polls show independent centrist Macron is set to beat National Front candidate Le Pen in Sunday's second round of voting, in what is seen to be France's most important election in decades.

But environmentalists released their own poll this week suggesting most Americans don't really have a strong opinion on the issue, and would rather see Congress move on to other things.

Democrats, meanwhile, have seized on dismal public opinion polling on the plan and the fact that most individual tax cuts would expire under it while a massive corporate tax decrease would be permanent.

One piece of good news is that public - opinion polls, time after time, show that most Canadians think a top priority in this country is the support of social programs.

Most Greeks want to see the terms of an international financial rescue revised even as they acknowledge that failing to abide by them may lead to the country exiting the euro, an opinion poll showed.

Public opinion polling during the summer of 2008 placed the Conservatives and Liberals in a virtual dead heat, leading most to speculate at the time that if an election were held there would be a third minority government.

But as details of the deal began to leak out, opinion polls in most of the participating countries tracked growing public opposition.

Recently there were reported in a Southern California newspaper the results of a national opinion survey, (6) Of the 3000 women polled, 96 percent still viewed marriage as their first choice for the most satisfying and interesting way of life.

Public opinion polls show that most Americans are fed up with the tone of American politics and the broader cultural coarseness, but few seem willing to act on these beliefs.

Even with all the techniques to spread the polling population among masses, it still does not change the fact that most people may have different opinion than those who are polled.

It's not particularly scientific, but in four of the six most recent ComRes opinion polls, the Conservative lead among men has been more than double that of the lead among women.

Just three per cent expected a Tory victory despite that being the most likely result shown by opinion polls.

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First, while public opinion polling on the question of cannabis legalisation has been all over the place on the question, the most reliable results suggests that a slim majority of Germans opposes cannabis legalisation.

Democrats hope the controversy comes too late to make a difference in the election, in which most national public opinion polls show Clinton ahead.

We also see in the poll that respondents generally have favorable opinions of two of New York State's most prominent Democrats — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Other public officials have complained their conflict hurts New Yorkers, which is an opinion most Quinnipiac poll respondents agreed with.

[21] On 27 November 2006, the Press Association reported that she had commissioned an opinion poll from YouGov which found that Harman would be the most likely potential deputy leader to increase the Labour vote at the next general election.

Only one poll conducted since the attacks has been published, so most of the changes in the opinion poll data, and the models that are built on them, reflect polls conducted late last week; shortly after the Conservative manifesto launch and mostly before Theresa May's announcement of a cap on social care funding.

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.

Recent polls have shown that most Republican voters do not know enough about any of the three candidates to form an opinion, with many saying they have not decided whom to support.

In order to address the question, I estimate what the party first preference votes would be in the different constituencies, assuming similar (proportional) changes in party vote shares in all constituencies to those that are being suggested by a particular opinion poll, or — in this case — an average of the most recent polls.

The reality, as most of the opinion polls will tell us, is there's not actually that much of a substantial difference between Scotland and England.»

[54] Labour's opinion poll ratings also improved, with most showing the party to have gained a narrow lead.

As the following graph of opinion poll trends during the 2010 campaign shows, so - called «Cleggmania» peaked immediately after the first debate, when he did most to introduce himself to most voters: his poll ratings, and his party's, surged, while both the Conservatives and Labour fell.

Most sensible Conservatives know that the Lib Dems are still gifted, hard working and canny campaigners and will do better than their current opinion poll ratings suggest and certainly when those ratings rise in a General Election campaign, as they inevitably will.

It's yet another instalment of the dishonesty he most memorably exhibited at the time of the bottled 2007 election, that he didn't look at opinion polls when cancelling the election.

«Back in 2012, opinion polls suggested Mr Osborne was the most unpopular member of the government.

Voters have only a slightly less favorable opinion of Bill Clinton, but most believe the women who have accused the former president of sexually abusing them, according to the latest Rasmussen poll.

«I think the most powerful argument for Labour in this election - because of the way the polls are, and the way the opinion polls are and the leadership issue - the most powerful argument for Labour is to say it's important for our democracy that the Government is held to account and needs a strong opposition.»

Part of Mr. Lasher's challenge will be to raise awareness of the work that Mr. Schneiderman has done since he took office in 2011; polls have found that most New York voters have not developed an opinion of him.

[63] Despite opinion polls indicating a strong Labour lead, opinion polls were then viewed as a novelty which had not proven their worth, and most commentators expected that Churchill's prestige and status as a «war hero» would ensure a comfortable Conservative victory.

Today the LibDems sit ahead of Labour in the opinion polls and, on some counts, are the most popular party in the country.

This rule has fuelled speculation that Mr Brown could hang on and try to forge a deal with the Liberal Democrats even if the Tories win more votes and seats than Labour but fall short of an overall majority — the position reflected by the most recent opinion polls.

Consider the nightmare scenario: Based on the most recent opinion polls, the Tories would win the popular vote.

However, unlike in 1992, opinion polls for most of the inter-election period had consistently suggested that a Labour victory was likely.

The Conservatives were sailing more than 20 % ahead of the Labour party in a number of opinion polls, and most expected them to be swept back into power with a hefty majority.

We now publish an updated «nowcast» to reflect the latest BES data and the most recent opinion polls.

To round off our coverage we now predict these results in a detailed way, based on the most recent opinion polls and a careful simulation of the List PR system in every region.

Drivetime (RTE Radio 1): Discussion relating to constituency - level analyses of recent opinion polls which show Fianna Fáil as most popular party in the state for the first time since 2008 (18th February 2013).

Meanwhile, an opinion poll commissioned by former Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft in the 40 most marginal Tory - held seats suggests that Labour remains on course for a comfortable overall majority at the next election — not because the party itself is gaining ground, but because Ukip has tripled its share of the vote, mainly at the expense of the Conservatives.