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Making sense of the polls

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United Kingdom Election – 11 days to go

The United Kingdom election will be held in 11 days on the 7 May. You can read my preview from two weeks ago here. Since that preview was written, little has changed with the overall polling picture. The…

Newspoll and Ipsos have contradictory results

On Monday we had two polls from Ipsos and Newspoll that gave contradictory results. Previously Ipsos has been a Coalition-leaning pollster, so Labor’s 54-46 lead in this poll was a big surprise. However…

United Kingdom Election Preview

The United Kingdom election will be held on the 7 May. There are a total of 650 House of Commons seats, with members for each seat elected by the simple first past the post (FPTP) system, in which the…

Final NSW polls have Coalition set for easy win

The New South Wales election will be held today. Polls close at 6pm local time. All final polls give the Coalition at least a 10-point primary vote lead. The Coalition’s primary vote estimate in the major…

Federal polling volatility continues

This week we have had three polls from Newspoll, Morgan and Essential with different results. Newspoll gave Labor only a 51-49 lead, a 4% move to the Coalition. Morgan’s headline figure was 56-44 to Labor…

New South Wales Election Preview

The New South Wales election will be held next Saturday 28 March. The lower house has 93 single-member seats. At the March 2011 election, the Coalition won 69 of these 93 seats, to 20 for Labor, 1 Green…

NSW ReachTEL has clear Coalition advantage

A New South Wales ReachTEL poll taken last Thursday night, from a sample of 1730, has the Coalition leading by 53-47 on respondent allocated preferences. Primary votes, with changes from last week, are…