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23-05-2019, 10:28
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This isn’t an overtly political blog beyond the sphere of lifestyle politics. However, for each major national election, out of interest I’ve run a poll on people’s voting intentions. Five years ago I published the results of the one on the 2014 European Parliament Elections (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2014/05/decision-day.html). It’s fair to say that the outcome had been somewhat swayed by rather enthusiastic sharing by other people.
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Five years on, and against all expectations following the referendum result, we have another round of European Parliament elections. The results of my poll are shown above – make of them what you will. I’m not aware of this one having been touted around to anything like the same degree. As a comparison, here are the results of one of the final proper opinion polls:
Latest EU Parliament voting intention (19-21 May)
Brexit Party - 37%
Lib Dem - 19%
Lab - 13%
Green - 12%
Con - 7%
Change UK - 4%
UKIP - 3%https://t.co/lm8MR3YKsS pic.twitter.com/mWuzvpxhIT (https://t.co/mWuzvpxhIT)
— YouGov (@YouGov) May 22, 2019 (https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1131106652780924933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) As it is not off-topic on this post, feel free to comment on the political issues, but please be polite and don’t throw a metaphorical milkshake (or brick) at anyone.
Note that I removed For Britain from the options shown in the sidebar, as they did not end up nominating any candidates, which I wasn’t aware of when I originally created the poll.


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