Posted on December 31st, 2006 by Anthony Wells
Labour
Looking back over the year the turning point for Labour was the May local elections, or more specifically the week prior to them was they were faced with the triple whammy of John Prescott’s affair, the foriegn prisoner release scandal and Patricia Hewitt’s misjudged comments on the NHS’s “best year ever”. [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dem, Uncategorized
Posted on December 30th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
Welcome back! In the next couple of days I’ll be putting up some articles looking at how the polls have fared for the three main political parties over the last year and what they are indicating for the year ahead. In the meantime, here’s a round up of polls that have crept out over the [...]
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Filed under: Communicate, ICM, Populus, Religion, Voting Intention
Posted on December 22nd, 2006 by Anthony Wells
YouGov’s December poll has the Conservative lead down marginally at 4 points, the full topline figures with changes from last month’s are CON 37%(nc), LAB 33%(+1), LDEM 17%(+1). The changes from last month are insignificant in themselves, but over the longer term there seems to be a slight weakening in the Conservative lead in YouGov’s [...]
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Filed under: Voting Intention, YouGov
Posted on December 20th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
The last of ICM’s monthly Guardian polls of 2006 shows the Conservatives with an 8 point lead in voting intentions. The full topline figures with changes from ICM’s last poll in the News of the World are CON 40%(+1), LAB 32%(+1), LDEM 18%(-2), although the last ICM poll in the Guardian showed only a 5 [...]
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Filed under: ICM, Voting Intention
Posted on December 13th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
More from Populus’ latest poll in today’s Times. Populus found a small majority (52%) in favour of replacing Trident, with 20% saying they supported Trident in the past but don’t think it should be replaced now and 23% saying they have never supported Britain having a nuclear deterrent.
The was a very sharp contrast between the [...]
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Filed under: Defence, Populus
Posted on December 12th, 2006 by Anthony Wells
Populus’s final monthly poll of 2006 in Tuesday’s Times shows a drop in the level of Conservative support. The topline voting intention figures are CON 34% (-2), LAB 33%(nc), LDEM 19%(-1). Populus tend to show the smallest Labour lead of the main pollsters, and their Tory lead was as low as this as recently as [...]
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Filed under: Populus, Voting Intention