Current Prediction: Conservative majority 46
Party | 2015 Votes | 2015 Seats | Pred Votes | Pred Seats |
CON | 37.8% | 331 | 40.4% | 348 |
LAB | 31.2% | 232 | 29.8% | 217 |
LIB | 8.1% | 8 | 6.6% | 5 |
UKIP | 12.9% | 1 | 13.9% | 1 |
Green | 3.8% | 1 | 3.7% | 1 |
SNP | 4.9% | 56 | 4.9% | 56 |
PlaidC | 0.6% | 3 | 0.6% | 4 |
Minor | 0.8% | 0 | 0.3% | 0 |
N.Ire | | 18 | | 18 |
Prediction based on opinion polls from 08 Jan 2016 to 25 Jan 2016, sampling 7,136 people.
Probability of possible outcomes
There has been an update to Electoral Calculus published on 31 January 2016 at
With only a light amount of polling in January, there was no clear trend.
The Conservatives maintain a lead over Labour of around 10% (including correction for pollster bias), and the other parties are fairly stable too.
Further analysis of the pollsters' error in May 2015 has been provided both by the BPC/MRS inquiry preliminary report, and by the British Election Study. These both point towards methodological problems which led to Labour voters being over-represented in the online and telephone polls.
The most recent polls from the five pollsters who published polls in January are:
Panelbase (Times) has Con 39, Lab 31, Lib 6, UKIP 14, Green 5 ComRes (IoS; SMirror) has Con 40, Lab 29, Lib 7, UKIP 16, Green 3 Survation (Mail on Sunday) has Con 37, Lab 30, Lib 7, UKIP 16, Green 3 ICM (The Guardian) has Con 40, Lab 35, Lib 6, UKIP 10, Green 3 Ipsos-MORI has Con 40, Lab 31, Lib 7, UKIP 11, Green 4
The averages: Con 40 (nc), Lab 30 (nc), Lib 7 (+1), UKIP 14 (+1), Grn 4 (nc).
The new national prediction is that the Conservatives will have majority of 46 seats, winning 348 seats (+2 seats since 3 January).
Electoral Calculus
USING THEIR 600 SEAT MODEL
The predicted results in the country, given the National levels of support which you entered, are as follows.
National Prediction: Conservative majority 82
Party | 2010 Votes | 2010 Seats | Pred Votes | Gains | Losses | Net Change | Pred Seats |
CON | 37.0% | 300 | 40.4% | 41 | 0 | +41 | 341 |
LAB | 29.7% | 222 | 29.8% | 11 | 46 | -35 | 187 |
LIB | 23.6% | 54 | 6.6% | 0 | 50 | -50 | 4 |
UKIP | 0.0% | 0 | 13.9% | 0 | 0 | +0 | 0 |
Green | 0.0% | 0 | 3.7% | 0 | 0 | +0 | 0 |
SNP | 1.7% | 6 | 4.2% | 43 | 0 | +43 | 49 |
PlaidC | 0.6% | 2 | 0.6% | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 |
Minor | 7.5% | 0 | 0.8% | 0 | 0 | +0 | 0 |
N.Ire | | 16 | | 0 | 0 | +0 | 16 |