UK 2017 GE results: resurgence of two-party politics

Jun 09, 17 UK 2017 GE results: resurgence of two-party politics

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The 2017 UK General Election produced another upset for election forecasters and most pollsters (kudos to YouGov for being the only big gun to predict a hung parliament with their new prediction model!). As we have surveyed in our previous text, a vast majority of the poll-based and model-based forecasters, just like with Brexit...

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UK general election poll tracker (NOT our prediction)

Jun 07, 17 UK general election poll tracker (NOT our prediction)

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We are NOT predicting the 2017 UK general election. Unfortunately. They came too soon given their specifics (one must do polling in a number of toss-up constituencies to make sure to deliver an accurate prediction). But we did keep track of what all other polls were saying. What seemed like a Conservative landslide only last month...

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Our NEW rankings of UK pollsters

Jun 04, 17 Our NEW rankings of UK pollsters

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Last year, before the Brexit referendum, we offered the first unbiased ranking of UK pollsters. This was our effort to vindicate some in the polling business during a time of widespread public anger over their failure to correctly predict the outcome of the 2015 UK general election (despite the fact that making predictions is not...

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