With all the opinion polls of 2014 now in, how have the four main UK parties ended the year? Labour will take heart from the slight rally it experienced in…

The pollsters have wrapped things up for the year, meaning we’re in for a couple of weeks free from the temptation to number-crunch minute changes in percentages and extrapolate results from…

The opinion poll averages for each of the main parties so far this month are Labour 33%; Conservative 31.7%; Ukip 15.8%; Liberal Democrats 7.6%. This is barely a change on…

Labour’s lead over the Conservatives has narrowed slowly but persistently over the past few months. November saw this trend continue. The gap between the two parties’ average poll scores shrank…

BBC Parliament this week repeated the BBC’s marvellous 1964 election coverage. It prompted me to look at what kind of opinion polls were around 50 years ago. Were they as…

The unpredictable nature of daily opinion polls continues. So far this month Labour has been as high as 35% and low as 29%, while the Tories have peaked at 34%…

All four of the main UK parties bounced around the polls this month with an unpredictability that prompted many a newspaper headline. Labour rose as high as 38% and plunged as…

Poll trends are more useful than poll snapshots. I’ve said that many times on this blog, but it’s worth repeating. It’s particularly worth repeating this month, where individual polls have…

We’ve reached another symbolic marker in the countdown to the election. There are now just 200 days to go. The very latest opinion poll, published overnight by YouGov, puts Labour…

If you’re searching for clues about the election result in the latest batch of opinion polls, good luck. Their forecasts seem to be all over the place. Take the three…