Meticulous planning, statistical rigour, high quality data collection, sophisticated analysis techniques and in-depth knowledge of doing it across the world, are the key five success factors for the success of News18-Ipsos in predicting the 2019 general election of India most accurately.
With service delivery in the spotlight over the last few months, the most important post-1994 election in South Africa’s history will take place on Wednesday 8 May 2019 and, in spite of the electorate’s unhappiness about service delivery and other issues, it is unlikely that the low turnout figure and the phenomenon of ANC “stay-away voters” of the local government elections of August 2016 will be repeated.