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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 -
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.
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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 -
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:
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Give Students Back Grants, Urge Voters
Voters are unhappy with tuition fees and the scrapping of student grants, according to two MORI polls conducted for The THES in March and April this year.
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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.
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Election Postponement Poll
Vote intention poll for the Sun, following delay to 2001 general election.
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The Impact of Modern Polling Techniques on Campaigning in the 2001 General Election
House Magazine 'VOX POP'
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UK Business In The Broadband Doldrums
UK businesses are failing to embrace the potential offered by the internet and ecommerce, highlighting a strong scepticism about the internet's marketing and purchasing power.