Sentences with phrase «polling organisations»

The polling tracker is based on recent surveys by different polling organisations, and is adjusted so that the more recent the survey the more weight is attached to the vote shares.

This does not, however, imply malpractice on the part of polling organisations.

Since then, the leading polling organisations have devoted considerable energy to determining what went wrong and how their approaches can be improved.

It's as if a polling company announced that they'd rerun their pre-election poll data and discovered that they'd correctly forecast the Brexit result after all; that they couldn't tell you why, because the computer they'd done it on was broken; but that they knew they'd got it right this time because other polling organisations had done the same thing.

Peter Kellner, the president of polling organisation YouGov, gives his analysis of the results of the latest Channel 4 News poll.

The newspaper's Jane Merrick reawakens long - term rumours that he may be about to return to civvy street and to the Populus polling organisation he founded.

Supplier of acacia gum, Alland & Robert recently asked polling organisation Toluna to carry out a survey in the USA, UK, Japan and Germany to find out how much consumers know about acacia gum.

My own polling organisation, Lord Ashcroft Polls, allowed me to conduct independent research and the Government permitted me access to everyone I needed to see.

Taking an average of the change since the previous published polls of the respective polling organisations, the Conservatives are down 2 per cent, Labour are also down 2, and the Liberal Democrats up 4.

His comments were jeered by some audience members and earnt him a sharp slapdown from David Dimbleby, who stressed that the audience was chosen to be representative by an independent polling organisation.

This is sharply up from a five point lead measured by the same polling organisation yesterday, but a point down from what YouGov was showing just three days ago.

The Political Forecasting Unit polling tracker is based on recent surveys by different polling organisations, and is adjusted so that the more recent the survey the more weight is attached to the vote shares.

It is included in the Poll of Polls reported today, the effect of which is to depress the Labour vote share one point below the consensus of all three other polling organisations.

Tory fears were compounded when the Populus polling organisation — whose findings are monitored carefully by the party because it was founded by the former party official Andrew Cooper — found that voters were alarmed by talk of early spending cuts.

Between June 2017 and October 2017, Blackman earned # 1,545 for completing surveys on behalf of polling organisations.

Without being rude, I question whether one person can have enough detailed political knowledge to forecast every constituency individually but a newspaper, broadcaster or polling organisation might consider using local or regional expertise to build up a seat - by - seat picture on a national basis.

«There'll be a lot of headscratching afterwards,» he says; people from all polling organisations will be trying to work out why the way in which people say things differently in a poll in advance of the election is so different to what they say when they've voted.

10:20 - This might fall into the category of «things we knew already», but two polling organisations — ComRes and the apparatus funded by Lord Ashcroft — have put forward data exploring why voters went the way they did.

Oakeshott made his intervention as part of a discussion on the Today programme with Peter Kellner, the president of the YouGov polling organisation.

This polling organisation is unusual in that they conduct face - to - face interviews, in which interviewees are asked to input their answers on a laptop to maintain confidentiality.

Polling organisations are to hold an inquiry into why the polls did not reflect people's real voting intentions.

Put simply, the tracker is based on the most recent surveys by different polling organisations, and is adjusted so that the more recent the survey the more weight is attached to the vote shares.