Post Election Seminar Papers [Friday 17 June 2005]
The British Polling Council held a post-election seminar in June, to review the performance of the polls and to reflect on the lessons that could be learned from the 2005 election for polling in the future. Papers were presented to the seminar on different aspects of election polling by BPC members. These are listed below and most of them can be viewed by clicking on the relevant title.
- The record of the final national polls, marginal polls and regional polls — Simon Atkinson, Ipsos MORI
[49K] - Poll methodology, weighting and adjustment systems — Andrew Cooper, Populus [46K]
- Translating poll results into seats — John Curtice, Strathclyde University [50K]
- Did anything happen during the campaign? If so, what? Which party fought the best campaign? — Andrew Hawkins, Comres [140K]
- How big is the mountain the Conservatives still have to climb? Can Labour hang on? Can the Liberal Democrats advance? — Peter Kellner, YouGov [52K]
- Who Voted Labour? And Why? — Nick Moon, NOP [41K]
- Next time: what problems will the pollsters face? — Nick Sparrow, ICM Research [113]
