The latest political opinion polls and long-term social and political trends data from Ipsos in the UK
In a poll conducted on the eve of the election, 39 percent of British adults intended to vote for the Labour Party compared with 22 percent who would vote for the Conservative Party. The ruling Conservatives trailed Labour in the polls throughout 2022 and 2023, with a huge gap emerging in...
Pressure groups use opinion polls to help further political agendas, as in the case of hunting with dogs. The authors evaluate the two types of poll that have featured in the campaigning: scientific (representative) polls and straw polls. The shortcomings of straw polls are well known and the...
NATURE | NEWS UK election: Nature polls its readers on the science vote Survey suggests that left-leaning readers are taking more notice of historically minor parties. Richard Van Noorden 31 March 2015 Clarified: 01 April 2015 An e-mail poll of 321 UK Nature readers suggests that they are ...
This year, however, experts tend to agree that the polls show such a swing to Labour that, even if the scale of support were wrong, the overall result would be the same: a convincing win for the opposition party. “My attitude is [that] a poll should be taken but not inhaled,...
Opinion polls How the poll of polls has changed: update This election campaign looks like it’s going to tease us right to the end. The poll of polls has reverted almost exactly to the position it was in one month ago. The small Labour lead of a few weeks ago has disappeared. The pa...
After the Iranian attacks on Israel on 1st October, a new Ipsos poll examines UK public attitudes towards the conflict between the countries. 16 October 2024 Politics Download 83% are concerned about the impact of conflict between Israel and Iran on regional stability in the Middle East Just ...
UK politics opinion polls UK poll tracker: Live-updating state of the parties polling ahead of the general election Starmer said: “By winning in these Tory strongholds, we can confidently say that Labour is back in the service of working people and we will work tirelessly to deliver for th...
The FT poll-of-polls uses all polls conducted within the last two weeks, weighted so that pollsters who conduct polls more frequently do not affect the average more than others. Listed below are the polls that are currently used to calculate the polling averages. ...
The Press and the Polls in Germany, 1980-1994: Poll Coverage as an Essential Part of Election Campaign Reporting Since their beginnings pre-election polls have been under attack from politicians and journalists. One of the most fundamental criticisms of polls is that ......