Kantar TNS has published its first British voting intention poll since June’s General Election, and has made some headlines for showing the first Conservative lead in any poll since late September. The four-point gap for the ruling party over the Labour opposition is, however, something of a product of the turnout model adopted by Kantar. […]
Month: November 2017
New polling low for Finland’s ruling Centre
There is further opinion poll gloom for Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila today as his Centre Party (KESK) falls to a new low point in this parliamentary term in a Kantar TNS survey for the Helsingin Sanomat. With just 15.1 per cent of voting intentions, KESK stands six points below its actual score in the […]
Election result: Slovenia Presidency 2017, second round
Favourite and incumbent Borut Pahor duly won the run-off election for the Slovenian Presidency today, but with a narrower majority than some commentators had anticipated. The former Social Democrat Prime Minister, standing in this election as an independent, took 53 per cent of the votes cast, a slender six-point advantage over challenger Marjan Sarec, Mayor […]
Worst poll for German Christian Democrats for eleven years
Germany’s coalition negotiations, which are progressing slowly, may be starting to take their toll on support for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU). In last night’s twice monthly ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll from Infratest dimap, the CDU sinks to 30 per cent, its worst score with this pollster for eleven years. That figure is almost three percentage points […]
Pilz backing halves after allegations as Austria voters approve OVP-FPO coalition
The first national poll in Austria since parliamentary elections nearly four weeks ago is released tonight. Voting intentions have moved little in the Research Affairs survey for Oesterreich, with the exception of the list of Peter Pilz, the former Green politician who won eight seats in Vienna. After Pilz sensationally resigned his seat following sexual […]
Election result: Sicily regional election 2017
Italy’s resurgent centre-right, powered by Forza Italia, won a clear victory in Sunday’s regional election in Sicily. Nello Musumeci, the candidate of a diverse alliance of right-wing and centrist forces, finished five percentage points clear of his Five Star rival Giancarlo Cancelleri in the race for the regional Presidency, winning nearly 40 per cent of […]