The first proper polls are in tomorrow's Sunday papers, most notably
a poll of party members by YouGov.
The Australian - born journalist beat three other candidates to the position in
a poll of party members and will address its conference later this week.
• The Lib Dem Voice website has published
a poll of party members.
The sample size was only just over 200, but the actual figures were broadly inline with YouGov's earlier
poll of party members — 24 % said David Davis, 76 % said David Cameron.
The full figures, with changes from YouGov's last
poll of party members when Clarke and Rifkind were still in the race, were Cameron 59 % (+20), Fox 18 % (+5), Davis 15 % (+1).
Using the «clear blue water» and «one nation» split which YouGov used in their last
poll of party members, 57 % saw David Cameron as a «one nation» Tory.
But Clegg said he was aware of
a poll of party members by the Lib Dem Voice website which found 87 % support for Cable compared with 31 % for Clegg.
For the first one, we need a poll of Labour party members, and we don't have a recent one (there is some data from a YouGov
poll of party members for Tim Bale & Paul Webb, but that was done straight after the election before the candidates were clear).
Obviously polls like this do pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a precedent for a website running
polls of party members in this way and getting good results.
Not exact matches
When faced with two disagreeable candidates, 60 percent
of the National Association
of Evangelicals (NAE) board
members polled last month said that Christians should vote for the candidate they dislike the least, while 28 percent said to vote for a third -
party candidate and 12 percent said to not vote for that particular office.
Rejecting the advice
of «so - called communications experts» that the broadcasts are «quaint» and a «relic
of the past», he cited a 2005 ICM
poll which found
party political broadcasts are second only to news bulletins as the lead source
of information for general
members of the public.
The New Patriotic
Party's (NPP), incumbent
Member of Parliament for the Kwesmintim constituency in the Western Region, Joe Baidoe - Ansah, has lost his bid to contest in the December
polls.
A rare
poll of Conservative
party members has revealed a rank - and - file increasingly at odds with the leadership and considering transferring its allegiance to Ukip.
is a voluntary group
of loyalists, supporters,
Polling Station Executives, Constituency Executives, Regional Executives and grass root
members of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) in the Republic
of Ghana.
Pledge to promote discipline, order, harmony and progress in the
party towards the 2016
polls, by publicly rebuking his supporters who verbally abuse and physically assault other
members of the
party who hold dissenting views.
One
of those
parties (
Party for Freedom, currently polling as the largest party at 21 % of the vote), only has a single member (Geert Wild
Party for Freedom, currently
polling as the largest
party at 21 % of the vote), only has a single member (Geert Wild
party at 21 %
of the vote), only has a single
member (Geert Wilders).
My question is: Is
polling for a
party member's number 1 favourite candidate a useful way
of predicting how likely a candidate is to win the primary?
Poll finds fewer than half
of all Labour
party members think their leader will win the general election
«In light
of the conduct before the election and serious allegations around the
poll we also call on the political
parties to take responsibility for their
members, conduct investigations, and discipline those who have behaved outside the democratic standards to which they have committed.
Fabian
polling for our «Facing Out» pamphlet suggests there is a group
of at least 2.5 million Labour identifiers, active in political engagement outside
parties, and interested in participation in Labour activity without becoming
members.
Most Liberal Democrat
members are decidedly to the left
of Clegg and the «Orange Book» free market liberals in the
party, so the shift in rhetoric could be an effort to placate the
party as it contemplates its declining
poll ratings.
The Lib Dems will point to past
polls that have traditionally seen the
party suffer a slump post-election, but the figures will occupy the minds
of many
members and activists as they gather in Liverpool next week.
After hours
of discussion, and in defiance
of pleas from state committee
members pushing to delay the decision, the
party formally broke its uneasy alliance with Cuomo, the two - term governor leading Nixon in one early
poll by a 3 - to - 1 margin.
However, a 2015
poll found that 71 %
of Conservative
Party members wanted to leave the EU.
One legacy has been a membership sharply polarised by when they joined the
party: in a recent YouGov
poll of Labour
members, Corbyn's net approval rating was -46 among those who joined before he became a leadership candidate in 2015 but +36 among those who joined after he declared — and this latter group constitutes 60 %
of the total membership.
But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion
polls, increasing numbers
of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.
Although Labour's
poll rating is anaemic, the
party has not yet suffered the degree
of electoral damage that would weaken support for Corbyn among the unions and
members.
Steve Greenberg, with Siena College's
polling center, says the 495
of New York residents are registered Democrats, 25 % are enrolled in the Republican
Party, and 24 % are independents or members of another political p
Party, and 24 % are independents or
members of another political
partyparty.
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.
Reacting to this outright falsehood from the Akufo - Addo hireling and a card bearing
member of the New Patriotic
Party, Prof. Ransford Gyampo, a Senior Lecturer at the University
of Ghana, in unequivocal terms stated that, neither the University not its Political science department has conducted any
Polls «The Department
of Political Science hasn't conducted any such study.»
Those
polls suggested that almost two - thirds
of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour
Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.
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.
A
poll of 2,010 Labour
Party members and Labour - supporting
members of affiliated trade unions was conducted between 3 and 14 September 2010.
This month's
poll of Labour
Party members, by YouGov for The Times, revealed that Jeremy Corbyn's support has been rising within Labour.
According to the
party, which has been
polling its
members online for weeks now, Sanders won the support
of an «overwhelming supermajority»
of WFPers — 87.4 percent — compared to 11.5 percent who choose Clinton and 1.1 percent who backed former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.
Speaking to a
member of Akufo - Addo's campaign team who blurted out his frustrations against the system on condition
of anonymity, he indicated that, last week Friday, the campaign team «approved» and «made available» a cash amount
of Ghc 2 million for Hiring
of Buses and payments for
polling station allowances
of the
party's agent in all 275 constituencies.
But a new YouGov
poll reported in The Times has found that Corbyn enjoys the support
of 66 %
of party members, a remarkable rise
of seven points over the 59 % who supported him at the leadership vote.
The big winner in the five - way Democratic AG primary was «don't know», with a whopping 81 percent
of poll respondents who are enrolled
members of the
party choosing that answer when asked a generic «who will you vote for» question.
The opposition New Patriotic
Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Bekwai Constituency in the Ashanti Region Joseph Osei - Owusu has disclosed that the party can not trust police security for the party's flagbearer and his running mate going into the November P
Party (NPP)
Member of Parliament (MP) for Bekwai Constituency in the Ashanti Region Joseph Osei - Owusu has disclosed that the
party can not trust police security for the party's flagbearer and his running mate going into the November P
party can not trust police security for the
party's flagbearer and his running mate going into the November P
party's flagbearer and his running mate going into the November
Polls.
The BMG Research
poll for the Evening Standard suggests a wide difference
of opinion between the public at large and Labour
members, who look set to re-elect Mr Corbyn as
party leader next month.
This one won't necessarily be as bang on as that in 2001, a
poll of 661
party members has a margin
of error
of about 4 %, so we could be looking at actual splits between 63/37 to 71/29, but either way, Cameron has won the election and is going to be the next Tory leader.
The
poll was made up
of 40 percent Republicans, 29 percent Democrats and 25 percent independent or
members of minor
parties.
In advance
of the publication
of a ConservativeHome
poll on
party members» attitudes to co-operation with the Liberal Democrats he suggests that Britain may be heading for a hung parliament after the next General Election.
Indeed never in the
party's history has the authority, power and standing
of a Labour leader been lower than it is today (though according to a recent YouGov
poll Corbyn remains very popular among
members).
The former governor called on the PDP to put its house in order, stating that the
members should not allow inordinate ambition to tear the
party apart ahead
of the 2019
polls.
Despite the fact that it was only put together in 2016, several
members of the opposition
party have blamed breaches in the biometric register for the
party's embarrassing loss in last year's
polls.
He said quite often than not, the number
of registered
party members the CPP have, does not show up to vote during national elections, thereby making the
party record single digits at some
polling stations.
«Top Cat» Owen is the only
member of the current OMRLP line up ever to
poll over 1,000 votes (he
polled 2,859 votes in the 1994 European elections), and his dip in fortunes despite a previously strong local following appears to have killed the last realistic chance the
party ever had
of seeing a saved deposit.
Whiles many in the
party say John Mahama is NDC's safe bets for the 2020 presidential
polls, a significant section
of party members still have some reservations with the former President's leadership style.
Some
members of the NPP in the Ellembelle Constituency
of the Western Region, in December 2017 besieged the
party's headquarters in Accra, demanding that their National Executives furnish them with their original
polling station register.