This is a regular feature which will run every Sunday night up until polling day, to include the last set of figures from each pollster, as well as the current seat spreads from the betting markets, and also international updates. The pollsters Last poll from each pollster Con Lab LD Oth Lead YouGov 10 Apr 40 32 18 10 8 BPIX 10 Apr 38 31 20 11 7 ICM 10 Apr 38 30 21 11 8 ComRes 10 Apr 39…
This is a new feature and will run every Sunday night up until polling day, to include the last set of figures from each pollster, as well as the current seat spreads from the betting markets. There probably won’t be any articles on international politics over the next few weeks, but to ensure that it retains a toehold on PB even during the UK campaign, this slot will continue to feature international snippets. The pollsters Last poll from each pollster…
Wikimedia Commons © Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com Netherlands heads list of international elections this spring With Viktor Yanukovych now inaugurated as President of Ukraine (and Tymoshenko departing as PM to boot), Sebastian Piñera taking the reins of an earthquake-ravaged Chile, and Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts continuing to impact on the push to pass healthcare, the winter elections are firmly put to bed, and it’s time to look ahead to the traditionally busy spring season. Even from an international perspective, the…
BBC News Almost a million behind, Tymoshenko will contest results in court Five years on from the Orange Revolution of December 2004, the 2010 presidential election in Ukraine has lacked the drama of its predecessor, but in many ways that is a welcome sign of a country slowly moving towards a proper democracy, even if, as the events of the last week show, there is still plenty of ground to cover yet. The results were nothing short of a humiliation…
Your predictions revealed Many thanks to everyone who took part in the PB 2010 Prediction Competition hosted by The Election Game, with a turnout 31% up on 2009. The full summary predictions and player-by-player detail are available here, but these are the headline numbers. UK General Election Con 348 Lab 215 LD 54 Con maj 46 Labour Leader at Xmas Ed Miliband 24% David Miliband 20% Harriet Harman 19% Alan Johnson 7% There are more potential Labour leadership candidates, plus…
Wikimedia Commons …is President Băsescu about to be toppled? Twenty years ago next month saw the bloodiest of the Eastern Europe revolutions of 1989, with the overthrow and execution of Romania’s leader Nicolae CeauÅŸescu and his wife Elena, and the takeover of power by the National Salvation Front, many of whose members had been communist officials. Today’s Romania is a very different place from its early 1990s counterpart, with the fledging democracy dominated by the NSF having settled down into…
CNN What do we think of this surprise choice?
Exit Karamanlis, Enter Papandreou? Ta Nea Exit poll: PASOK 42.5 ND 36.4 KKE 7.9 LAOS 5.3 SYRIZA 3.7 No opinion polls may be published during the last two weeks of the campaign, but unless all the earlier polling was extremely inaccurate, then the New Democracy government led by Kostas Karamanlis, beset by economic crises, riots, and a wafer-thin parliamentary majority, looks set to go down to defeat. The opposition socialist PASOK, led by George Papandreou, his father a PM in…