Posts Tagged ‘opinion polling’

Oddities

EVERY extensive survey has a few oddities in it, and the You Gov poll released this morning did make me smile for a number of reasons. Here are a couple of absolute gems from the surveyed public: – 3% of Plaid Cymru voters trust the UK Government a great deal to act in Britain’s best [...]

Conventionally speaking

THE YouGov poll doesn’t just cover General Election voting intention. It also looks ahead to the probable/possible (delete as you believe appropriate) referendum on future powers for the National Assembly. When the All Wales Convention reports on November 18, this issue will move to the top of the political agenda. A number of questions on [...]

In your region today…

AT the risk of sounding obsessive, the polling data also contains useful regional polling data based on Assembly election intentions too. Results are divided between constituencies and the Assembly’s electoral regions with the additional feature that South Wales Central has been sliced in two between the valley part and capital city. Things that leapt out [...]

Profiling

THE polling data from YouGov this morning helpfully also breaks down the outcomes into factors like age, gender and socio-economic group. Looking at the data, here are some of the headline features that leap out when examining its stratification: The only significant gender bias is that women are more likely to vote Conservative than men. [...]

If there were a General Election tomorrow…

WELL there isn’t, but there is an opinion poll for Wales published today which has posed this very question and the results make very interesting reading indeed. When asked the crucial question about 2010 voting intentions the Welsh electorate divided as follows: – Labour 34% – Conservative 31% – Plaid Cymru 15% – Liberal Democrat [...]

YouGov’s First Welsh Poll

THE findings of YouGov’s first Welsh poll is to be unveiled at a special breakfast seminar organised by Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre. The poll, which comprises the findings of YouGov’s new Welsh panel, covers a host of topical political issues, including voting intentions in the next UK general election, attitudes to the candidates for the [...]