Pollster Opinium has published its first UK voting intention survey for seven weeks for this Sunday’s Observer newspaper, with little real change to report over the holiday period. Small movements each way combine to halve the Labour opposition’s lead over the minority governing Conservatives from six to three points, but overall the changes in party […]
Month: August 2017
Swiss narrowly positive towards pension reform
The plebiscite-loving Swiss will head to the polls on 24 September for the Alpine confederation’s third referendum date of 2017. Two linked votes on pension reform (including an increase in Value Added Tax to help finance it) will be held, and a proposal to improve Switzerland’s food security will also be put to citizens. With […]
SPO closes gap as Greens fall behind Neos
Austria’s centre-right People’s Party (OVP) continues to hold a decent lead over the Social Democrats (SPO) in the race for October’s parliamentary election, according to today’s quarterly Oesterreich Trend poll for ATV, carried out by Peter Hajek. The gap has narrowed since June, however, to five points, with the populist Freedom Party (FPO) unchanged in […]
Record score for Finland’s Greens as Social Democrats fall to fourth place
Finland’s Green League (VIHR) achieves its best score of this parliamentary term with pollster Taloustutkimus in its monthly survey for broadcaster YLE, out today. VIHR gains 1.6 points to move to 17.6 per cent of voting intentions, way in advance of both the 8.5 per cent achieved at the 2015 parliamentary election and the 12.5 […]
Hollande comparisons start to dog Macron as approval ratings slide
During the French Presidential campaign Emmanuel Macron’s opponents accused him of being ‘Francois Hollande 2’ – a charge that failed to stick as he swept into the Elysée Palace. But the comparisons have now returned with a vengeance as the new President faces approval ratings that are below his those of his predecessor after three […]
Worse poll of the year for Labour with exactly one month to Norway’s election
Today’s score of 28.1 per cent of voting intentions with Respons Analyse is the Norwegian Labour Party’s lowest result in 62 national polls so far in 2017. It comes exactly one month before the election of a new Storting on 11 September and raises significant doubts about the AP opposition’s ability to seize power from […]