Parti Socialiste Presidential candidate Benoit Hamon ended a dreadful week confronted by an Odoxa poll for Le Point, released on Friday evening, giving him a record low of just 8 per cent in first round voting intentions. On Wednesday came the blow of former PM Manuel Valls, the man Hamon defeated in the PS primary, […]
Month: March 2017
Vucic strolls towards first round Serbian victory
With four days remaining until Serbs vote for a new President, the campaign continues to be one-sided and less than pretty. Today’s Demostat poll shows outgoing Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic set for a first round victory on Sunday, with 56 per cent of voting intentions – and not one of his opponents even gaining 10 […]
Best score of 2017 with EMG for Grillo
Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement (M5S) is incrementally widening its lead over the ruling Democratic Party (PD) with a number of pollsters at present. For example, last night’s EMG Acqua survey for LA7’s news programme gives the anti-establishment party its best score of 2017 in this weekly series. M5S is now back to […]
Election result: Bulgarian Parliament 2017
Just over four months after centre-right Prime Minister Boyko Borissov submitted his government’s resignation on16 November, Bulgarians went to the polls yesterday in early parliamentary elections. Borissov’s GERB party topped the poll, maintaining a rock-steady 32.7 per cent share of the vote and taking an estimated 96 seats in the 240-member unicameral National Assembly. The […]
Major failure for pollsters in Saarland vote
With the provisional official results just out in tonight’s regional election in Saarland, it is clear the opinion polls have failed to pick up the resilience of Angela Merkel’s CDU and over-estimated the ‘Schulz effect’ from the SPD’s recent change of leader. All six polls carried out in March (by four different firms) […]
Big two steady in Ireland as Sinn Fein dips
Both opposition Fianna Fail and minority governing party Fine Gael hold steady in this month’s Red C poll published in today’s Sunday Business Post. Meanwhile Sinn Fein’s boost from Fine Gael’s troubles and a successful Northern Irish Assembly election may be starting to fade. Compared to a month ago, SF is down two points with […]