Hard on the heels of national election losses, Angela Merkel’s CDU suffered another setback in yesterday’s regional election in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). Having been clearly ahead in the August and early September opinion polls, and with hopes of taking the state after the defection of a Green MP had led to an early election, the […]
Month: October 2017
Final polling for the Austrian election: OVP lead still solid, battle on for second
6.4 million Austrian voters will go to the polls tomorrow to elect 183 members of the lower house of parliament, or Nationalrat. Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz’s rebranded OVP retains a comfortable lead in the final opinion polling, as it has done throughout a successful campaign. The centre-right OVP’s numbers are practically unchanging, coming in at […]
‘Dirty’ campaign leaves Austria’s SPO trailing in third
In the final campaign poll from Research Affairs, Austria’s most regular pollster, the Social Democrats of the SPO continue to trail in third place behind the centre-right OVP and the populist Freedom Party (FPO). There is a minor uptick of a sole percentage point for the party of current premier Christian Kern, but nothing to […]
French government turns the corner with Elabe
Today’s monthly political ratings survey from Elabe brings good news for both President Macron and PM Philippe as their approval ratings move up after having fallen over a politically difficult summer. In answer to Elabe’s question ‘do you have confidence or not that the President can tackle the problems facing the country?’ some 40 per […]
Varadkar helps Fine Gael move forward in Irish Times poll
Ipsos MRBI published its first national poll for over four months in yesterday’s Irish Times, covering not only voting intentions and leader ratings, but a number of individual issues notably including abortion law reform. The survey shows rather little has changed in voting intentions over that long period, but the numbers do give a first […]
CDU and SPD tie twice as Lower Saxony vote nears
In a dramatic polling turnaround, two surveys in the last 24 hours have shown CDU and SPD tied in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), where regional elections will take place on Sunday 15 October. The contrast with three polls carried out in the state in August is stark – these gave the CDU leads of 12, 8 […]