It has been a bumper day for polling in the French Presidential campaign, with the fortnightly survey from Harris Interactive and a monthly one from Ipsos Sopra Steria-Cevipof joining the two daily rolling polls. Most media excitement was reserved for the news from Harris that Emmanuel Macron (En Marche!) had overtaken Marine Le Pen (FN) […]
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Surprising resilience for Fillon as Juppé bows out (again)
The daily double dose of rolling French Presidential polls is now up to speed with all last week’s events, fieldwork for both having been carried out after news that Francois Fillon would be charged – and against a background of many of his LR party heavyweights withdrawing their support. The resignations of his campaign manager […]
Macron chalks up first poll lead as Fillon flounders
Independent candidate Emmanuel Macron passed an important polling milestone today – for the first time during an already protracted French Presidential campaign he was shown leading on first round voting intentions. The Odoxa survey reports the En Marche! founder advancing two percentage points to hit 27 per cent, while rival Marine Le Pen […]
France: Macron’s dip over with Elabe, Le Pen slightly weaker
Ten days ago Emmanuel Macron saw a drop in fortunes in Elabe’s opinion poll following controversial statements on colonisation and gay marriage. But this now appears to be something of a blip, with the pollster’s latest survey today putting him back firmly in second place – in line with other voting intention reports. The […]
Macron benefits from Bayrou endorsement in rolling polls
Veteran centrist leader Francois Bayrou has kept France waiting over his Presidential intentions, but there was little surprise last Wednesday when he announced he would not run and would instead endorse independent Emmanuel Macron. Bayrou had been scoring just 4 to 6 per cent in the polls since the start of the year, while Macron’s […]
France: Fillon holds steady in early Opinionway rolling polls
It is now one week since French pollster Opinionway launched its daily ‘rolling’ Presidential election survey, Présitrack, with a 500-strong cohort of respondents moving in and out of the figures daily and around 1500 participants in total. (Like many activities in French life, ‘daily’ excludes the weekend – so we have seven surveys to assess […]