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Month: May 2014

The Final YouGov poll on Euros

The Final YouGov poll on Euros

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EXCL: YouGov/Sun projection – UKIP to make history and win tmrw's Euro vote: UKIP 27%, Lab 26% http://t.co/BxDIr0lDej pic.twitter.com/hsgK5eLfgo — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) May 21, 2014   Update the Sun Graphic is incorrect, The Greens are on 10% ahead of the Lib Dems who are on 9% — The Screaming Eagles (@TSEofPB) May 21, 2014 Meanwhile The Guardian have an interesting leak. An internal Liberal Democrat document reveals that the party is braced for a complete wipeout in the…

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Checking the Political Weather in Wales

Checking the Political Weather in Wales

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Results of the May Welsh Political Barometer In 2009 the Conservatives were the big success story of the European elections in Wales, topping the poll in a Welsh national election for the first time in over a century (I haven’t been able to track down an earlier occurrence, Labour has topped every poll since 1918 when the Coalition Liberals stormed to victory under David Lloyd George). This was mainly down to Labour’s nosedive (down 12.2 points since 2004) rather than…

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If the trend in the ComRes marginals’ survey is seen in Lord Ashcroft’s weekend mega-poll then LAB is in very serious trouble

If the trend in the ComRes marginals’ survey is seen in Lord Ashcroft’s weekend mega-poll then LAB is in very serious trouble

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Comres marginals General Election poll LAB 35% CON 33% UKIP 17% LDEM 8% My own Labour/Tory battleground seat poll released Sat @ConHome — Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) May 20, 2014 CON doing far better in the marginals than GB as a whole The main reason why we have marginals polling at all is to find out whether what is happening in the key seats is different from the country as a whole. At a general election voters in these constituencies have a…

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Survation’s poll on the Euros and Westminster VI

Survation’s poll on the Euros and Westminster VI

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Survation have conducted a poll for the Daily Mirror, the fieldwork was yesterday and today, they polled 1,106 respondents. As usual they have an all voters Voting Intention, and also applied a likelihood to vote (LTV) filter, but additionally this time, they’ve added an additional weighting measure. Respondents who were not aware of the day of the European Parliament Election was, had their likelihood to vote reduced to 0.6 of their expressed likelihood to vote. (So this is what the…

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Corporeal on The Passion of the Ukippers

Corporeal on The Passion of the Ukippers

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As Mike noted at the time the latest round of 2014Euro polls came back with a pretty wide range of results, ranging from UKIP leading by 11 points with ComRes, down to ICM putting them in 3rd and 4 points off the top. So I did a little digging. What I think is causing at least the main part of the disparity is how the different pollsters treat certainty to vote responses. ICM operate a weighting system based on a…

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Guest Slot: Five reasons to bet on Labour winning the Euros this Thursday

Guest Slot: Five reasons to bet on Labour winning the Euros this Thursday

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Predicting an election when the three top parties could well end up within three or four points of one and other and in any order of gold, silver and bronze is likely a fool’s errand. But finding value in the betting market before Thursday isn’t. There’s big reasons for Labour to rightfully worry about UKIP this Thursday (the continued erosion of its blue collar base, UKIP in-roads on Labour-identifying non-voters etc, the immigration issue etc). But there’s also small things…

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The PB EP2014 Competition: Predict the party shares to win a free bet at Ladbrokes

The PB EP2014 Competition: Predict the party shares to win a free bet at Ladbrokes

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Will PB’s Wisdom of Crowds” gets closest to Thursday’s outcome? First go to the Prediction Page Second If you are a registered poster on the site then use your Vanilla username. If not then enter your email address as well. We will need to contact you to arrange for your free £50 bet at Ladbrokes if you win. Third Enter your predictions for each party up to two decimal points. Fourth, after you have made your predictions of the shares…

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ComRes phone poll and ComRes and YouGov Euros polls all out

ComRes phone poll and ComRes and YouGov Euros polls all out

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In recent days and especially today, it feels like a General Election campaign with a phalanx of polls, and it is hard to work out what the polls mean with polls with markedly different results. First Up, we have the ComRes phone poll for the Independent. ComRes/Independent Westminster (phone) poll Lab 35% (-1) Con 30% (-) UKIP 14% (+2) LD 8% (-1) Others 13% (-) http://t.co/LY90t5vkJt — Andrew Hawkins (@Andrew_ComRes) May 19, 2014   Well also have a ComRes online…

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