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  General Election 2001 - Election Digest

  Election Digest

  10.05.01
• Politics Survey

  Times 2001 Campaign Polls Wave 1

  MORI's first weekly poll for The Times of the 2001 election campaign

  10.05.01
• Politics Survey

  Tony's Army

  Four years ago some four million people, one elector in ten, enlisted in Tony's Army, saying that they supported the Labour Party and that they encouraged others to vote Labour without being asked. Only a quarter as many were canvassing others on behalf of John Major's Conservative Party.

  10.05.01
• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001

  What will be the main issues of the election of 2001?

  10.05.01
• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001 - Election Digest

  Election Commentary - Votes and Seats
  First campaign poll finds widening gap
  Key public services deemed worse than in 1997
  NOP/Daily Express election survey
  Capital's business executives rate PM and Chancellor above Shadow counterparts
  Pundits predict 143-seat majority
  Voting Intentions in Scotland

  09.05.01

• Pulse Check

  Pulse Check delivers key insights from Ipsos' Political Monitor, Political Pulse, and Public Services data, along with reactive polling, to help you navigate the evolving political landscape.

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• Economy Survey

  South East Top For Internet And Phone Banking

  But only minority happy to give up visiting their local branch

  09.05.01
• Politics Survey

  Read The Shares, Not The Gap

  Two polls, both by NOP, are the first out of the gate in the general election. We can draw some lessons from how they are reported.

  09.05.01
• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001

  Opinion polls measure the electorate's intentions in votes, not in seats. We can — if nothing goes wrong — measure voting intention percentages directly, and would hope to be accurate within our margins of error. But projecting the number of seats that a given share of the votes would give, although it produces a better headline, involves much greater uncertainties, and we rarely have the information we need to produce such figures with anything approaching precision.

  09.05.01
• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001 - Election Digest

  Election Commentary - And They're Off...
  Canvass Leaks Suggests Election Downturn for Tories
  Two Negatives, but still positive for Labour
  NOP/Powerhouse Poll: Tories Up

  08.05.01
• Politics Survey

  General Election 2001

  The election begins with the most recently published polls* by all the companies showing Labour's lead over the Tories slightly lower than was the case before the election was called in 1997:

  08.05.01
• Politics Survey

  Low Turnout: Who Loses?

  In last week's column I set out some of the evidence that suggests that the turnout in the forthcoming election may be even lower than in 1997. However, one aspect that I didn't address was the political impact of a low turnout.

  04.05.01