As Germany’s ‘Jamaica’ coalition negotiations inch forward, October’s opinion polls have shown a further loss of momentum for Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU. Only 3 of the 19 national surveys published during the month saw the combined Christian Democrat forces match their result in the Federal election of 24 September. The slippage on the October polling average […]
Month: October 2017
Election result: Iceland Parliament 2017
Iceland’s snap parliamentary election yesterday ended inconclusively, with losses for the ruling Independence Party and the wipeout of its previous junior coalition partner, but without the expected gains for the Left-Green Movement that opinion polls had projected. The conservatives of Independence (Sjalfstaedisflokkur), effectively forced into the country’s second election in a year, lost nearly four […]
Election result: Slovenia Presidency 2017, first round
After months of opinion polling giving him enormous leads, the only question in yesterday’s Slovenian Presidential election was whether incumbent Borut Pahor would secure the 50 per cent of votes needed to win on the first round. Up against a field of eight varied opponents, the former Prime Minister and long-time Social Democrat (running as […]
Final polling for the Czech Parliamentary election
Voters in the Czech Republic go to the polls tomorrow (Friday 20th) and Saturday to elect a new Chamber of Deputies, with the ANO (‘Yes’) movement of Andrej Babis continuing to hold a commanding lead in the final polling. ANO has clearly emerged the better from this summer’s coalition crisis than their partners in government […]
Belgium’s Greens surge to historic polling highs
Green parties in all three parties of Belgian continue their rising scores of 2017 in the new Kantar TNS poll released yesterday. In Wallonia, the Ecolo party has hit a new record of 18.5 per cent of Federal voting intentions, putting it into third position for the first time in any opinion poll this year. […]
Election result: Austrian Parliament 2017
Austria’s centre-right People’s Party (OVP) achieved its expected victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday. Provisional final results, published only this morning after the counting of an unprecedented number of postal votes, showed Sebastian Kurz’s rebranded party winning 31.5 per cent of the vote, up 7.5 points from 2013 and enough to gain 15 extra seats […]