How many people know what ‘pork barrel politics’ means?
Another reminder that most people don’t pay that much attention to politics and so what’s obvious to those in politics can be baffling to those outside it. … Read the full post »
Opinion polls
Read about UK political opinion polls and related matters, especially how the different parties are doing in voting intention surveys.
For a full database of voting intention polls since their birth in the UK in 1943, see PollBase, the largest collection of voting intention polls.
Latest general election voting intention opinion polls
Here are the latest general election voting intention figures from each of the polling firms currently running national surveys. … Read the full post »
Four in five Labour members back electoral reform for Westminster
New polling of Labour Party members shows 83% believe the party should support changing the UK’s electoral system to proportional representation. … Read the full post »
Latest PollBase is out, with all the voting intention polls since the general election
With the end of another quarter, another update to PollBase, my database of British voting intention opinion polls since 1943 is now up. … Read the full post »
How many Conservatives want Johnson to go before the next general election?
New polling from Redfield & Wilton shows what proportion of 2019 Conservative voters want Boris Johnson to step down before the next general election. … Read the full post »
What does the polling say about a possible Progressive Alliance?
Last month a story did the rounds about how a poll shows that if Labour, Greens and the Liberal Democrats did a deal to stand only one candidate against the Conservatives, Boris Johnson would be out of power. But how good was that poll and what conclusions can really be drawn from it? … Read the full post »
A good by-election result for the opinion pollsters
You might wonder about how a Parliamentary by-election without any public opinion polls can be a good one for pollsters. But bear with me… … Read the full post »
7 in 10 Britons want laws banning discrimination against LGBT people
A new global study by Ipsos shows strong support for measures to be put in place to stop discrimination against LGBT people in Britain. … Read the full post »
The public’s spending priorities, post-pandemic
New polling from the Mile End Institute, as reported on by Phil Cowley. … Read the full post »
Why didn’t sleaze stories hurt the Tories more in this year’s elections?
Why didn’t the Conservatives appear to take that much of an electoral hit last week from the run of recent sleaze stories? Polling analysis newly released by YouGov gives some strong clues. … Read the full post »