London Mayoral Elections

You can read my commentary on the London mayoral race for Progress magazine here. Alas the publication deadline for the article was before the two polls released this week, so half of what I said is out of date – such is life.
A very full list of candidates for the mayoral election is on the [...]

Ipsos MORI have Boris and Ken within 2 points

The full tables for the Ipsos MORI for the Labour party are now out.
Asking ALL respondents, the figures were Livingstone 44%, Johnson 33%, Paddick 16%, Berry 4%. Once all but the top two candidates were elminated and second preferences re-allocated the result becomes Livingstone 51%, Johnson 41% (the figures don’t sum to 100% because some [...]

Rival polls on the Mayoral Election

(For all polls on the London mayoral election go here)
After waiting months for a proper poll on the London mayoral election, two come along at once (I’ve resisted a bendy bus metaphor!). Firstly there is a new YouGov poll for London Tonight, and unlike the January YouGov poll with the sorry sample of under 400, [...]

ComRes give Tories 11 point lead

ComRes’s monthly poll has topline voting intention figures, with changes from their January poll, of CON 41%(+3), LAB 30%(nc), LDEM 17%(nc). The poll was taken between February 22nd and February 24th and the full tables are available here.
ComRes tend to produce the strongest figures for the Conservative party, largely because their weighting is more favourable [...]

First post-nationalisation polls

Today sees the first polls taken since the nationalisation of Northern Rock. A snap Populus poll with a small sample size for the Times found that 49% of people agreed that it was right for the government to nationalise Northern Rock, with 40% disagreeing -although 69% thought they should have tried harder to find a [...]

Tories 3 points ahead in latest ICM poll

ICM’s monthly poll for the Guardian has topline figures of CON 37%, LAB 34%, LDEM 21%. The changes from the last ICM poll are Labour up 2, with the other two parties unchanged. The poll was conducted between the 15th and 17th of February.
The poll continues the pattern we’ve seen since September last year of [...]