Ireland’s main opposition party, Fianna Fail, achieves its best score with pollster Red C since last summer in today’s publication for the Sunday Business Post, hitting 28 per cent of first preference voting intentions. The milestone is significant, as Fianna Fail has scored less well in 2017 with Red C than with the country’s other […]
Month: April 2017
Extraordinary first week of UK campaign polling
If Theresa May’s decision last Tuesday to call a UK General Election was a surprise, the eight days since have continued to shock in opinion polling terms. The already enormous leads enjoyed by the ruling Conservatives have somehow grown further, the UK Independence Party’s support has tumbled, and the Labour Party is under threat in […]
ANO at new 2017 high as Social Democrats slump
If last month’s CVVM poll gave some hope to Prague’s ruling CSSD with a small rise in fortunes, April’s edition has quickly smashed it again – the Prime Minister’s party slumps by six points in voting intentions to 16 per cent, its worst score of 2017 with CVVM. For coalition partner and main rival in […]
Election result: French Presidency, first round
With the addition of ballots from French citizens overseas, the final results have now been released nearly a day after the nation finished voting in the most unusual first round Presidential contest seen in the 58 year life of the Fifth Republic. The result – the qualification of centrist Emmanuel Macron and right-wing populist Marine […]
Final French Presidential polls before Sunday’s first round vote
Ahead of the legal ban on opinion polls that comes into force at midnight tonight, six of France’s eight pollsters have issued their final research today. Only one of the six – Odoxa’s survey – had fieldwork entirely carried out after the terrorist attack in Paris on the night of Thursday 20 April, the same […]
Another new poll high for Sweden Democrats
Today’s monthly YouGov survey for Sweden’s Metro newspaper gives the populist Sweden Democrats their second best poll score of 2017, and their best of the year with YouGov. At 25.6 per cent they are the country’s first choice on Riksdag voting intentions, moving up firmly compared to the comparable March survey as the country continues […]