With just eight weeks to go until Germany’s federal election, July closed in a very satisfactory way for Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her Christian Democrat party (CDU/CSU) held onto its enormous average poll lead and indeed increased it slightly from 13.9 points over the Social Democrats (SPD) in June to 14.5 points in July. (It should […]
Month: July 2017
Kurz in clear lead with three months to go
Ahead of Austria’s Nationalrat election on 15 October, the pace of both campaigning and polling is stepping up, with seven surveys already published in July. OVP leader and Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz continues to lead by large margins in the three polls published yesterday and today, with the SPO (Social Democrats) and FPO (Freedom Party) […]
Narrow lead for Fianna Fail with B&A as Varadkar fails to achieve poll lift-off
Just as in last weekend’s Red C poll, new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has failed to make an immediate impact in the first Behaviour & Attitudes survey to be fully researched since his election. In the comparable June B & A poll, the two main parties were tied on 29 per cent of voting intentions. Now […]
Another low score for AfD with Ipsos Germany
German populists the AfD (Alternative for Germany) continue to struggle in July’s opinion polls, with an 8 per cent score in today’s Ipsos poll being the joint lowest for the party since Ipsos began its currently fortnightly series in September 2016. Other recent lows for the AfD include: 7 per cent with GMS […]
Varadkar leads in first poll since Fine Gael selection
New Taoiseach Leo Varadkar sees his Fine Gael party leading in Ireland’s first poll with all fieldwork carried out since his election was declared on 2 June. However, yesterday’s Red C survey for the Sunday Business Post also shows a closing of the gap to opposition Fianna Fail from eight to three points, suggesting little […]
Prospect of Pilz list troubles Austrian Greens
With 100 days to go until Austria’s parliamentary election, the Green Party faces further difficulties following its recent decision to drop historical star personality Peter Pilz as a candidate. The first opinion research testing the prospect of an independent ‘Pilz list’ competing in October shows the Greens would be hard hit, losing one third of […]