YouGov have come in for a fair amount of flack online following last night’s instant debate poll for The Sun. Some of the criticism has been wrong or misplaced. Yes, one of their senior figures has Labour roots. But then one has Conservative roots  and other staff support the Liberal Democrats. They’ve even done polling

It’s a well-established pattern during this Parliament that YouGov generally gives lower ratings to the Liberal Democrats than other pollsters, and this appears to be due to YouGov finding female voters to be more Conservative than other polling companies. Whilst YouGov did well in last year’s London Mayor elections, its record in other elections is

YouGov hopes to channel the constant flow of opinions from Twitter and Facebook into useful data with its new polling site

Some people who blog on this site seem to think everything here is the official Conservative line and has been approved by Central Office. You should know that everything on this site is written by me. There are no ghost writers who get up at 6am to

A second poll out tonight comes from YouGov in the Sunday Times. The topline figures, with changes from YouGov’s last poll taken the day of the pre-budget report, are CON 41%(+1), LAB 35%(-1), LDEM 15(+1). The poll was conducted on the 11th and 12th December. While there is a slight increase in the Conservative lead, there

Today's opinion poll for YouGov in the Sunday Times has the Conservatives ten points ahead of Labour: Conservative 43% (-2%)Labour 33% (+2%)Lib Dem 14% (-1%) Anthony Wells of YouGov and UK Polling Report comments:"The poll was conducted between the 9th...

The sense that things are moving the Tories way will be further bolstered by YouGov for the Sunday Times which has the Tories ahead by ten points, 39 to 29. As Conservative Home points out, this is the first time this year that Labour have been below 30 with YouGov. It is also the biggest Tory lead with YouGov since their poll of the 7th of January. On a uniform national swing, this result would l...

Channel 4 have released a new YouGov poll of marginal seats that projects a Conservative majority of between 60-70 seats were it to be repeated at a general election. The last time YouGov carried out a marginals poll like this was at the tail end of October, when the Labour lead in national polls had narrowed

It’s a well-established pattern that during this Parliament internet pollster YouGov consistently gives the Liberal Democrats lower levels of support than other pollsters (as, for example, I previously blogged about on this site). Looking at the details of polls published so far this year, this pattern remains but there is also an interesting detail when it

Channel 4 news has a new YouGov poll of marginal seats. The poll covered Labour held Conservative target seats that require a swing between 3% and 7% to capture, the logic being that those “low hanging fruit” are certain Conservative gains in the present environment, so the battleground becomes those seats the Conservatives need to