April 13, 2015
Poll update: two trends worth watching
The monthly poll averages for the two of the four main parties are on the move. Not by much, admittedly, but after several months of almost no movement at all,…
April 12, 2015
Leaders’ campaign visits: the totals so far
The election campaign is now two weeks old. How are the main party leaders getting on in clocking up visits to key constituencies and marginals? David Cameron has ticked off…
April 11, 2015
Five things we now know about the candidate total
1. There will not be a record number of people standing in the election. Despite what I said yesterday – and said so confidently – the total number of candidates…
April 10, 2015
The candidate total: what we already know
Nominations closed yesterday for the general election. The full list of candidates will take a little while to become publicly known, but it’s safe to say a record number of…
April 09, 2015
One thing missing from the campaign so far
We’ve had the battlebuses, the party political broadcasts, even the photo opportunities with cuddly animals. But we’ve now had well over a week of electioneering and I’ve yet to hear…
April 08, 2015
How the poll of polls has changed
I’ve now been running a poll of polls on the blog for over a month, based on a seven-day rolling average of all the latest nationwide polls. Here’s how the ratings…
April 07, 2015
One month to go
Time for my latest prediction of the election result – and it’s almost a dead heat: Here’s how that breaks down by party:
April 06, 2015
Declaration times: a first look
The Press Association has published its list of estimated declaration times for the general election. It’s only an approximate timetable, and in some cases the timings from 2010 have been…
April 05, 2015
The poll trends are shifting, but there’s still no surging
Here’s a line graph showing the results of every nationwide poll that has been published since the beginning of last month: The performance of the two main parties is clear. They…
April 04, 2015
Leaders’ campaign visits: the totals so far
The election campaign is a week old. How are the main party leaders getting on in notching up those all-important visits to key constituencies and marginal seats? First, the prime…
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