Opinion polls at the time show that the difference between the two main contenders had been too close to make any accurate prediction as to the outcome of the elections.

Opinion polls showed that voters favoured retaining Britain's nuclear weapons and believed that the Conservatives would be better than Labour at defending the country.

Opinion polls soon showed that he took most of LN's supporters with him, leaving LN with its original 2 %, while Fortuyn soared to 17 %.

Opinion polls showed the party's popularity increase under Marine Le Pen, and in the 2011 cantonal elections the party won 15 % of the overall vote ( up from 4. 5 % in 2008 ).

Opinion polls showed the party struggling to return to its post-election 36 % approval level.

Opinion polls suggest 70 % of people support the ban.

Opinion polls carried out by UNESCO in 1948-1949 found world government favored by a majority of respondents in six European countries and rejected in three other countries ( Australia, Mexico and the United States ).

Public Opinion, 1935-1946 ( 1951 ), massive compilation of many public opinion polls from US, UK, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere.

Opinion polls following his resignation suggested that Raffarin was one of France's least popular prime ministers since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958.

Opinion polls routinely reveal that the monarchy remains popular by a wide majority of citizens in contemporary Spain, with as many as 75 % of Spanish citizens ranking the monarchy above any other public institution in the country.

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Opinion polls were showing Alliance support as high as 50 % by late 1981.

Opinion polls showed that 70 percent of the public objected to the deal.

Opinion polls of 23 February 2011 sponsored by Paddy Power, the Irish Independent, and The Irish Times suggested that Kenny would lead Fine Gael to its largest total of seats to date in the 31st Dail, and that he would be elected Taoiseach.

Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals.

Opinion polls for many years were maintained through telecommunications or in person-to-person contact.

Public Opinion, 1935-1946 ( 1951 ), massive compilation of many public opinion polls from US, UK, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere.

Opinion polls showed that a slight majority of South Koreans are opposed to the move, both before and after the ruling.

Opinion polls and observers report widespread dissatisfaction, including a " rift " between the revolutionary generation and younger Iranians who find it " impossible to understand what their parents were so passionate about.

Opinion polls show a likely coalition government between Sir Greville and the pro-European Labour Party, but Alan persuades Piers to introduce a proposal to ban trade unions throughout the EEC, which splits the Labour Party into pro-and anti-European factions as well.

Opinion polls in January showed a sharp decline in Latham's support and a preference for the return of Beazley as Labor leader.

Opinion polls showed that if a " Rainbow Coalition " came to power, Dick Spring of the Labour Party was seen as a better potential Taoiseach than Bruton.

Opinion polls had shown that the party's strong performance in government had increased their popularity and an overall majority for Fianna Fáil could be a possibility.

Opinion polls cited in El País are all carried out by a separate company called Instituto OPINA.

He was also professor of journalism at Columbia University, but he had to give up this position shortly after he formed his own polling company, the American Institute of Public Opinion ( Gallup Poll ), in 1935.

Shevardnadze rallied up support for his corruption campaigns by establishing the Study of Public Opinion.

Opinion polls gave a mixed view of the party's strength — some gave it up to twenty percent of the vote, while others gave it only around two or three percent.

Opinion polls in the days leading up to the referendum gave the " No " campaign a clear lead.

Opinion polling had shown the " Yes " and " No " campaigns in the lead at various times, but in the weeks leading up the referendum the " No " campaign consistently held the lead.

Opinion polls showed the Centre Party led by the mayor of Tallinn, Edgar Savisaar, with a small lead in the run up to the election.

In 1988 the core of employees of his former sector at Russian Academy of Sciences and members of his seminar helped him to set up the Russian Public Opinion Research Center ( VCIOM ).

In fact, when she published her 1940 dissertation " Opinion and mass research in the USA " in Germany, having spent a year at the University of Missouri to research George Gallup's methodology, Joseph Goebbels called the 24 year-old woman as an adjutant and intended for her to build up, for the ministry of propaganda, Germany's first public opinion research organization.

The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, sponsored by a consortium of major U. S. news organizations, conducted a comprehensive review of all ballots uncounted ( by machine ) in the Florida 2000 presidential election, both undervotes and overvotes, with the main research aim being to report how different ballot layouts correlate with voter mistakes.

However, when the mayor restricted the vote to only Freemen in the election of 1660 for the Convention Parliament that organised the restoration of the monarchy, the House of Commons noted that " for One-and-twenty Parliaments, the Commonalty, as well as the Citizens, had had Voice in the electing of Members to serve in Parliament ; and that thereupon the Committee were of Opinion, that the Commonalty of the said Borough, together with the free Citizens, have Right of Election " and overturned the election, seating instead the candidate elected by the more-inclusive Commonality of Chichester, and jailing the mayor for two weeks for contempt because of his wilful denial of the ancient rights.

Opinion polling is also illegal on election day.

Public Opinion Polls have not rated the Socialist Party of Ukraine or its leader Olexandr Moroz as they were undecided as to their participation in the Ukrainian Presidential election In 2005 Moroz received 5. 8 % of the national vote.

Chief Executive Officer Ted Torbeck was quoted in the Chambersburg Public Opinion newspaper on 2009-11-30 from Remington's most recent quarterly earnings conference call as saying " Since the U. S. presidential election, demand for ( ammunition ) has risen amidst concerns that the new administration will further restrict the use or purchase of firearms and ammunition and levy additional taxes on these products.

Opinion polls may be improved by more closely mirroring the larger poll or election anticipated, such as in wording of questions and inclusion procedure.

* Opinion polls prior to the 1994 election showed a close race between the two largest parties ( the Liberals and the Parti Québécois ), giving voters less of a reason to vote for a third party.

Opinion polls in the run-up to election day showed Fernández leading with 54 %, Mejía on 27 %, and Estrella on 14 %.

Opinion polls in the leadup to the 2004 election had suggested a close result in Stirling, leaning towards the possibility of sitting Labor member Jann McFarlane retaining her seat.

Opinion polls for the upcoming election forecast a strong showing for the British Columbia Conservative Party, which has been represented in the Legislative Assembly since a Liberal MLA crossed the floor in 2012, casting doubt on the Greens ' future as British Columbia's third party.

The book was well received and led to several writing assignments in Public Opinion Quarterly and The New Republic on the role of voter turnout in the 1988 election.

Opinion polls were carried out almost every day during the election campaign and were reported by all the news media.

Opinion was divided between election by popular vote versus election by state legislature.

George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion achieved national recognition by correctly predicting the result of the election, and for correctly predicting the results of the Literary Digest poll to within about 1 %, using a smaller sample size of 50, 000.