Poll: General election voting intentions poll

[Judgeneo]

It has no reflection on the general public at all.

Latest average polls will put labour at about 33%, Tories at 32%, UKIP at 14% and LD and greens at 7% each.

OCUK is a renowned right wing forum and these polls just highlight how far right they are. I actually take some comfort in the fact that despite being far right support for UKIP is only marginally higher, this would be a good indicator that they won't do as well as some of them would like to make out.

There is another possibility, the forum isn't quite as right wing as you think it is?

Indeed, lets have a look at last time:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18142677&highlight=general+election+2010

Last time we:
Over voted conservative by 4%
Under voted labour by 15.8%
Over voted LibDem by 7%
Under voted UKIP by 0.5%
Under voted Greens by 0.6%
Under voted SNP by 0.7%
Over voted BNP by 0.1%


From that the only bias we seem to have is that we don't like Labour....

 

[D.P.]

There is another possibility, the forum isn't quite as right wing as you think it is?

Nope, because an aggregate of uniform polling data shows otherwise.
http://may2015.com/category/poll-of-polls/

 

[V F]

Didn't the Conservatives say they were going to pay down the deficit by 2015 i.e. now? The greatest trick George Osborne has pulled is to convince people that he's good at running the economy when all the evidence points to the contrary.

I 100% agree with you, they under estimated the deficit situation when they said they would have it paid off by 2015, I cant argue that its fact but things crop up during a job that cant be foreseen and throw the schedule off, or the budget out, or both.

However I dont believe that is a strong enough reason for me, personally to swing into the labour camp.

What politician and party has ever kept their word on anything?

 

[RDM]

Nope, because an aggregate of uniform polling data shows otherwise.
http://may2015.com/category/poll-of-polls/

I don't think I ever said that OCUK wasn't right of centre generally just not a hot bed of far right views. We had some very vocal posters that were very right wing, but then we also have quite a few very vocal posters that are very left wing.

 

[RDM]

Just watching Daily Politics, apparently Trade Unions in Rotherham have blockaded the UKIP offices there preventing Farage from visiting there. Strange that the Unions are so concerned about this but did nothing about the child abuse that went on there. No wonder people don't think Labour and the Trades Union don't represent ordinary working people any more.

If only the left could have been so organised when kids were being raped...

 

[John40]

If only the left could have been so organised when kids were being raped...

Absolutely, pathetic organised protest against a legitimate politician but girls being raped with impunity while a socialist council does nothing.

 

[D.P.]

If only the left could have been so organised when kids were being raped...

Th Trade unions have nothing to do with child rape, they are just trying defend worker's rights that Farage wants to undermine.

I don't see that there is any connection or that child rape has got anything to do with the political spectrum.

 

[D.P.]

I don't think I ever said that OCUK wasn't right of centre generally just not a hot bed of far right views. We had some very vocal posters that were very right wing, but then we also have quite a few very vocal posters that are very left wing.

t is not as bad as it used to be but there is still an above average number of far right views here.

 

[ReltonBFD]

Th Trade unions have nothing to do with child rape, they are just trying defend worker's rights that Farage wants to undermine.

I don't see that there is any connection or that child rape has got anything to do with the political spectrum.

I think the unions started to stop protecting workers rights when they backed labour who opened the doors to European tradesmen who work for half the price . My trade was directly impacted by this.

Unions are a load of crap , Bully boys and push it way to far.

That proposed strike at a Plant up on the North east coast a couple of years ago was a prime example , they struck , owners threatened to shut down the plant . The ass of the Unions fell out that day

 

[RDM]

Th Trade unions have nothing to do with child rape,

To be fair I would probably wait until all the inquires have finished before making a such a statement as nobody else in Rotherham seems to have been free of blame so far.

I don't see that there is any connection or that child rape has got anything to do with the political spectrum.

Remind me again which political party has a massive majority on Rotherham Council? The same council that has effectively been branded not fit for purpose over both its actions on Child Sexual Exploitation and it's response to allegations of Child Sexual Exploitation?

 

[D.P.]

To be fair I would probably wait until all the inquires have finished before making a such a statement as nobody else in Rotherham seems to have been free of blame so far.



Remind me again which political party has a massive majority on Rotherham Council? The same council that has effectively been branded not fit for purpose over both its actions on Child Sexual Exploitation and it's response to allegations of Child Sexual Exploitation?

explain to me which political party is in favor of child rape?

 

[holymonk]

Going to vote for the first time in 32 years. Simply to keep deluded people like robgmun at bay.

 

[MikeB]

without reading the entire thread the polls scores are terrifying...15% would vote labour OMG.............

 

[semi-pro waster]

It's your poll and you can put what options you want in it but seeing your trying to find out people's voting intentions it is not a very conclusive poll - imo.

It's not going to be a conclusive poll, it's set up for a specific purpose after a request and it's deliberately made this way to get people to pick one party if they're voting. Abstaining or spoiling your ballot are both perfectly valid options if you don't want to vote or don't want to vote for any of the options you have available but in a general sense the votes that count are the ones cast for a party - it's arguable about spoiled ballots rendering an election result invalid but the numbers you'd need to coordinate are so large that practically speaking it's unlikely enough to not be worth worrying about.

Maybe for the next running of a similar poll I'd put in abstain or spoiling ballot options but even so it would be only useful if this was being taken rather seriously and used as an indication of likely outcomes. And to do that you'd need to know where people were voting and the votes for other candidates across the rest of the voting population to identify potential swing counties. I think it's just a bit of fun but I'm willing to be persuaded that other options should be added.

Please can you add a 'none of the above' option to the poll.

Afraid it can't be added now without invalidating the existing results and this poll isn't designed to find out if you're dissatisfied with the options available to you at the moment anyway. That option might be added to a future poll though.

Interesting poll results.

Is this them demographic of Ocuk? or a true reflection of the general public

I would suspect the results so far owe a fair bit to the demographic but also partly down to the poll options. We do have a fairly wide spectrum of opinions on OcUK but in common most are technology literate, predominantly male, have a certain level of disposable income to pursue a hobby such as building computers/gaming and from memory the majority are in the 20-30 age bracket. Obviously these links don't apply to everyone but I think those are the main commonalities for whatever they are worth.

 

[McPhee]

As Labour does, socialists tend to think there's a money tree that never stops and we can borrow without ever having to worry about defaulting.

On the subject of lefties

Question Time last night rocked! Labour were decimated and even George Galloway come of horribly! The audience torn them both to shreds!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b051zzq5/question-time-05022015

I really recommend watching the whole thing, it wasn't car-crash telly, it was a full on motorway pileup!

I felt bad for George Galloway to be honest. Someone at the BBC evidently thought 'You know what would be fun? George Galloway in front of an audience of Zionist Jews. That'd make great telly'. I don't think the case for 'George Galloway is an anti-Semite' was very successful. It's pretty clear he isn't. He's just got a thing against Israel, Islamic State and other entities that push a message of intolerance over religious tolerance. Sadly, with our government being rather pro-Israel, he seems to feel the need to act as a counterbalance, resulting in him saying stupid things.

 

[McPhee]

I would suspect the results so far owe a fair bit to the demographic but also partly down to the poll options. We do have a fairly wide spectrum of opinions on OcUK but in common most are technology literate, predominantly male, have a certain level of disposable income to pursue a hobby such as building computers/gaming and from memory the majority are in the 20-30 age bracket. Obviously these links don't apply to everyone but I think those are the main commonalities for whatever they are worth.

Maybe 20-35 now. We aren't getting any younger

 

[D.P.]

Going to vote for the first time in 32 years. Simply to keep deluded people like robgmun at bay.

I wonder how many people will do similar.
My parents didn't vote last time but both are voting this time, largely to show additional support against UKIP despite no candidate being in their constituency, and part against SNP although there is no stopping them.

 

[D.P.]

without reading the entire thread the polls scores are terrifying...15% would vote labour OMG.............

Don't worry, the real polls show labour just ahead of the Tories and UKIP doing around 14% but too distributed to get more than 3-4 seats.

I almost certainly won't vote labour so I'm not trying push an agwnda. The country is even split between labour an d conaecative and others.

 

[D.P.]

It's not going to be a conclusive poll, it's set up for a specific purpose after a request and it's deliberately made this way to get people to pick one party if they're voting. Abstaining or spoiling your ballot are both perfectly valid options if you don't want to vote or don't want to vote for any of the options you have available but in a general sense the votes that count are the ones cast for a party - it's arguable about spoiled ballots rendering an election result invalid but the numbers you'd need to coordinate are so large that practically speaking it's unlikely enough to not be worth worrying about.

Maybe for the next running of a similar poll I'd put in abstain or spoiling ballot options but even so it would be only useful if this was being taken rather seriously and used as an indication of likely outcomes. And to do that you'd need to know where people were voting and the votes for other candidates across the rest of the voting population to identify potential swing counties. I think it's just a bit of fun but I'm willing to be persuaded that other options should be added.



Afraid it can't be added now without invalidating the existing results and this poll isn't designed to find out if you're dissatisfied with the options available to you at the moment anyway. That option might be added to a future poll though.



I would suspect the results so far owe a fair bit to the demographic but also partly down to the poll options. We do have a fairly wide spectrum of opinions on OcUK but in common most are technology literate, predominantly male, have a certain level of disposable income to pursue a hobby such as building computers/gaming and from memory the majority are in the 20-30 age bracket. Obviously these links don't apply to everyone but I think those are the main commonalities for whatever they are worth.

What is surprising about OCUK is that it does lean right while almost all technology, computer, geek communities lean left. The ocuk voting habit is not unusual in itself but unusual for being associated to computers and technology.

 

[Destination]

What is surprising about OCUK is that it does lean right while almost all technology, computer, geek communities lean left. The ocuk voting habit is not unusual in itself but unusual for being associated to computers and technology.

I wasnt aware that geek forums still lean left.
Is there evidence for that currently, as opposed to twenty years ago?
I thought all the geeks grew up and warped right, certainly what happened with me, thx tony and gordy.