Sentences with phrase «poll leads at»

The Conservatives are enjoying their poll lead at the moment — one important question for them will be to what degree it lasts.

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.

In recent weeks, polling shows that Carson is beginning to edge out Trump among likely Republican Iowa caucus voters, with an October 22 Quinnipiac University poll showing Carson leading at 28 percent to Trump's 20 percent.

In the introduction to a series that will look back at the events leading up to the election, Silver seems on the defensive somewhat, justifying his analysis of the poll results and pointing out that he predicted Clinton would be weak with the Electoral College and that Trump might prevail.

That survey showed Carson (at 26 %) to have a four - point lead over led Trump (22 %), although Carson's advantage fell within the poll's six - point margin of error.

Trump vowed at his rally that he would win Washington state, even though the state tends to support Democrats and that party's nominee, Hillary Clinton, leads by large margins in opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

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 category of «Well, that... didn't... work out,» leading Tea Party Republican Ted Cruz, who has been at the forefront of the shutdown and debt ceiling offensive, commissioned a poll.

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.

After the election, observers tried to explain how the Tories blew a 25 point lead in the polls at the start of the campaign.

At press time, their poll showed «honest» in the lead with about 11,000 more votes.

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.

Cordray, most recently the director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was up 28 % -13 % after the previous poll showed a smaller 23 % -16 % Cordray lead, although a huge number of undecideds means the race could break in unexpected ways at the end.

Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump in the polls has decreased in recent weeks, with a recent RCP survey putting the Democrat at 47 per cent and the Republican at 45 per cent.

The latest polls by NBC and CNN show Trump still solidly leading Ted Cruz among white evangelical voters at large.

The Opinium / Observer poll has seen the Tories retain their lead at two per cent, while today's YouGov poll for the Sunday Times gives Labour a two - point lead.

The pledge to freeze energy prices received wide support in post-election polling, and when it comes to which party would be better at increasing people's living standards, Miliband and his party have a lead (albeit, a narrow two - point one) over Cameron and the Conservatives.

Betty Ann Canizio - Aqil, a Board of Elections chief clerk in Brooklyn, is expected to be suspended after a vote by the board's commissioners — the second BOE official to be suspended over New York's primary day snafu that led many voters to be turned away at the polls.

The party also took a swipe at the All Progressives Congress (APC)- led administration, saying its performance claims are intended to deceive gullible Nigerians ahead of the polls.

Well at the start of January, Labour had an average opinion poll lead of around one point over the Tories.

A recent poll by Siena College showed DiNapoli with a sizable lead, 49 % to 32 %, but it was below the magic 50 percent mark that all politicians like to be at this close to election day.

A Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday showed Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with commanding double - digit leads in the upcoming New York state primary, with Clinton taking 53 percent of the vote to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders» 40 percent, and Trump winning 55 percent — far ahead of the No. 2 candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, at 20 percent.

For instance, the most recent poll in the table above suggests at least a 6 - point popular vote share lead.

While she commands leads in the opinion polls her party will follow her, at least for now.

Now, with less than 100 days until election day, we have an opportunity to take advantage of our strong position and solidify our lead in the fundraising race and at the polls.

This measure is worth looking at in more detail as voting intention polls led many forecasters astray in 2015.

The YouGov poll recording a healthy lead over Owen Smith points clearly to him winning when the result's announced in Liverpool at the start of the party's annual conference.

A McClatchy / Marist poll released Thursday put Clinton at a 15 - point lead over Trump, with the chasm between the candidates growing from a tight 42 - 39 last month to 48 - 33.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

At a campaign stop in the Capital Region this afternoon, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand did not have much to say about her slipping lead over her Republican challengers, according to the latest Siena Poll.

In calling the snap election at this point, Theresa May has put a lot of confidence in her projected lead in the polls.

Pasok is in turmoil as its 43 % at the 2009 elections has now dropped to around 11 % in the opinion polls, with voters blaming the Papandreou - led government for its handling of the deep crisis even more than they blame New Democracy which was in power and increased the deficit substantially from 2004 - 2009.

The polls have been stubbornly fixed at neck and neck for months now with neither party seeming able to pull into a clear lead.

While polls indicate Hillary Clinton would be the overwhelming frontrunner if she runs for president in 2016, a CNN / ORC International Poll conducted in November shows that if the former Secretary of State passes on a second White House bid, Biden would be the leading contender in the Democratic primary with 43 %, with Cuomo coming in next at 15 %.

The survey showed Hunter leads with 39 percent of likely voters and Campa - Najjar polling at 14 percent.

He polled 1000 people by telephone in each of 16 different seats (15 Labour seats with 2010 leads over the SNP of at least 33 points but often 40 points or more; and 2 Lib Dem seats — Gordon and Inverness).

With a light turnout at the polls, Ms. Throne - Holst led Mr. Calone by just 29 votes out of almost 11,000 cast.

In a number of Labour targets, constituency polls and local election results suggest the party simply does not have enough of a lead (and sometimes none at all) over the Conservative incumbent.

According to recent polls, DioGuardi leads the three - way Republican Primary, and keeps Senator Gillibrand at 43 % — very low for an incumbent — in a Quinnipiac Poll.

After yesterday's Channel 4 News poll showing plummeting Conservative support in key marginal seats, leading Tory lobbyist Peter Bingle emails colleagues to describe his «despair» at his party's election campaign.

Jeremy Corbyn and his party performed poorly elsewhere in the 2017 local elections and with a large Conservative poll lead, the Tories expected to make large gains in the area at the general election.

Facing each other eight days before the November election, as Schneiderman's lead over Donovan narrowed in the polls, tensions at the WAMC studios in Albany were high.

As Paul led all his opponents in pre-Primary polls, they each targeted him for attack, slinging mud at him for the support he received from an organization he legally could not control.

Today's daily YouGov tracker poll put the Labour lead at nine, with the party on 40 % to the Conservatives» 31 %.

But with Ipsos Mori today releasing polling data putting Labour's lead at 11 points, it could yet be Miliband who laughs last.

In 1992, the polls predicted a Labour lead only for the Conservatives to win a majority at election day.

Of course, Sturgeon would like to hold a second referendum and to be the politician who led the Yes campaign to victory but she is not reckless; the First Minister wants to see support for independence polling at at least 60 per cent - for a substantial period of time - before gambling on another vote.

I arrive at that figure by taking the current CON - LAB lead of 7 % in the latest polls and adding an expected 2.5 % underestimate in the Conservative lead over Labour based on my analysis of historical polling errors.

Both Teachout and Faso led by at least 30 points in polling ahead of their respective primaries.

In the weeks leading up to the result I conducted some polling to compare the views of Labour members and union supporters with those of voters who moved away from the party at the last election.