Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Anthony Wells
Both Mike Smithson and I regularly criticise the BBC’s Daily Politics for commissioning political polls that are not politically weighted. The vast majority of political polls include a voting intention question and (with the exception of MORI, who don’t believe past vote is suitable for weighting in the first place) these are always weighted to [...]
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Filed under: Communicate, Methodology
Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Anthony Wells
The full tables for the YouGov/Telegraph are now on YouGov’s website. The other underlying questions show movement against Labour (not unexpectedly, since these are all comparisons to the last YouGov/Telegraph poll in December, not the Sunday Times one in January). Gordon Brown’s net approval rating continues to fall, now down to minus 36. Government approval [...]
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Filed under: YouGov
Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Anthony Wells
YouGov’s monthly poll for the Telegraph has topline figures, with changes from the last YouGov poll in the middle of January, of CON 43%(-2), LAB 32%(nc), LDEM 16%(+2).
I’ll do a full report tomorrow when I’ve seen all the figures (I can find references to on the Telegraph website in Jeff Randall’s column, but not [...]
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Filed under: Voting Intention, YouGov
Posted on January 29th, 2009 by Anthony Wells
One of the new additions I asked about in my user survey (I’ll give more results soon, at the moment it’s still open for people who haven’t filled it in yet) was whether people wanted to see more foreign polls here to fill the gaps between British polling figures.
Obviously UKPollingReport is always going to [...]
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Filed under: Foreign Polls
Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Anthony Wells
The full tables from ICM’s monthly poll are now on their website here. There are two questions that I don’t think were in the Guardian (though I think the first was mentioned in their leader): firstly, there is relatively little appetite for an immediate general election. Only 26% of people would like an election now, [...]
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Filed under: ICM
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Anthony Wells
ICM’s monthly poll for the Guardian has topline figures, with changes from last month, of CON 44%(+6), LAB 32%(-1), LDEM 16%(-3). The poll was conducted between the 23rd and 25th January.
The poll obviously shows a large and significant increase in Conservative support – the sort of large shift I’d normally urge some caution about if [...]
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Filed under: ICM, Voting Intention