Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Anthony Wells
MORI’s political monitor for May is out. The topline figures with changes from last month are CON 37%(-1), LAB 35%(+4), LDEM 18%(-2). The fieldwork for the poll was actually conducted prior to the recent YouGov and Communicate Research polls, but the trend matches that of the other polls since Tony Blair’s announcement of his retirement [...]
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Filed under: MORI, Voting Intention
Posted on May 29th, 2007 by Anthony Wells
Communicate’s May poll for the Independent has topline figures with changes from last month of CON 35%(-1), LAB 31%(+4), LDEM 19%(-3). This largely reflects the trend seen in the other May polls, which have seen a Labour recovery, most often at the expense of the Liberal Democrats – although it is worth adding that in [...]
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Filed under: Communicate, Voting Intention
Posted on May 28th, 2007 by Anthony Wells
More from this month’s YouGov poll in Monday’s Telegraph , largely about public perceptions of Gordon Brown. The overall findings contain nothing new – Brown is seen as intelligent, effective, competent and decisive, but also divisive, gloomy and dull.
More interesting is whether or not the leadership campaign (if you can call it a campaign [...]
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Filed under: Labour, YouGov
Posted on May 27th, 2007 by Anthony Wells
Despite the major differences between the methodology used by the different pollsters, by hook or by crook the voting intention figures they produce all tend to be relatively similar to one another. The exception is the Liberal Democrats, who vary significantly between ICM, who give them the highest scores, and YouGov, who give them the [...]
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Filed under: Lib Dem, Methodology
Posted on May 26th, 2007 by Anthony Wells
In the strange interregnum between Blair’s resignation announcement and Gordon Brown’s accession it’s still unclear what the polls signify. In the three polls carried out since Blair stepped down Labour have received a boost in the polls – either at the expense of the Liberal Democrats or the Conservatives. It is impossible to say for [...]
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Filed under: Voting Intention, YouGov
Posted on May 23rd, 2007 by Anthony Wells
ICM’s monthly poll for the Guardian shows the same sort of recovery in Labour supports as the other polls conducted since Tony Blair’s announcement of his resignation – Labour are up 2 points since last month with overall headline figures of CON 34% (-3), LAB 32% (+2), LDEM 21% (nc). In contrast to the recent [...]
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Filed under: ICM, Voting Intention