A week today voters in the German Federal State of Saarland will go to the polls to elect a new regional parliament. Normally Saarland, the second smallest of the country’s 16 Laender with a population of just 995,000, would barely feature on the political radar – but this contest will be interesting for several reasons: […]
Month: March 2017
France: Hamon near parity with Mélenchon
On a day when leftist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon brought a claimed 130,000 supporters of his France Insoumise movement onto the streets of Paris, the weekly BVA poll showed him within just half a point of Parti Socialiste rival Benoit Hamon. Sinking to 12.5 per cent of first round voting intentions, Hamon reaches a […]
Kurz looms over Austrian poll calm
March’s mid-month polls from the country’s two main research organisations are out, with little movement among the parties. However the prospect of a transformational leadership change for the third-placed People’s Party (OVP) still provides intriguing interest. In the twice-monthly Research Affairs poll for the Oesterreich newspaper, released yesterday, there is scarely a whisper of movement, […]
Good week for Macron, Le Pen – Hamon slides
Emmanuel Macron capped off another good campaign week in this evening’s Ifop/Fiducial poll as he stretched his advantage over the trailing Francois Fillon to a high of eight points, while staying neck-and-neck with Marine Le Pen in first round voting intentions. The centrist candidate and founder of the En Marche! movement also delivered a solid […]
Election result: Netherlands Parliament 2017
Final provisional results from yesterday’s Netherlands’ lower house election are now in after the last constituencies declared earlier today. Descriptions of ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ are relative concepts in such a fragmented outcome with the largest party gaining only one fifth of the votes and seats, and the next five finishers all within four percentage points […]
Worse poll for Norway’s Labour under Store leadership
Today’s Opinion Perduco poll for news agency ANB shows the ruling Conservatives (Hoyre) riding high on the back of their annual conference or ‘national meeting’, which has adopted a voter-friendly platform aimed firmly at September’s General Election. Pragmatic policy compromises and media attention surrounding the gathering helped Hoyre to its best score of the year […]