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.
The Fulham West by-election 1938 was won for Labour by Edith Summerskill, taking the seat from the Conservatives by 52%-48% in the face of widespread predictions by pundits that the Tories would hold on. Why mention this? … Read the full post »
Here are the latest general election voting intention figures from each of the polling firms currently running national surveys. … Read the full post »
Assuming the figures are accurate (and ConHome’s leadership surveys seem to have been), this is a very striking finding about the modern state of the Conservative Party… … Read the full post »
After 2016, it’s understandable why media outlets are taking care to emphasise that even polls showing Joe Biden clearly ahead of Donald Trump… … Read the full post »
It would be beyond ordinary people, but if you had all the resources of the Chinese or Russian state at your disposal? … Read the full post »
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 »
Forced to choose, four times as many Lib Dem voters would go for a Labour government headed by Keir Starmer than a Conservative one headed by Boris Johnson. … Read the full post »
The latest JL Partners poll includes a batch of questions looking at the overall reputation of the main British political parties. … Read the full post »
Professor Jane Green is co-director of the British Election Study, which is to British elections what Wisden is to cricket or Oxford is to dictionaries. … Read the full post »
Interesting polling results from Redfield & Wilton, showing how wary the British public is of the US compared to other countries. … Read the full post »