Barnsley Central By Election – Survation Survey For The Mail On Sunday Correctly Predicted UKIP Strength and Lib Dem Vote Collapse.
*The Mail On Sunday’s original story commissioning Survation
“Back home, but now Clegg faces another drubbing in new by-election” can be viewed here;
Survation interviewed 507 registered voters in Barnsley Central between February 24 and 25.
Here are the results for the 5 main parties* last night as they compare to the Survation survey for the Mail On Sunday*
| Survation Published Voting Intention Figures | Weighted, before undecided allocated to 2010 party vote | Actual result | |
| Dan Jarvis (Labour) | 63% | 66% | 60.8% |
| Jane Collins (UKIP) | 9% | 11% | 12.19% |
| James Hockney (Con) | 13% | 11% | 8.25% |
| Dominic Carman (Lib Dems) | 6% | 2% | 4.18% |
| Enis Dalton (BNP) | 4% | 5% | 6.04% |
*We did not break down voting support for “Others”
As you can see, actual results for the 5 national parties were very similar to those published in our survey.
Labour increased their share of the vote, the Lib Dem vote did indeed collapse and the UKIP made a strong showing.
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Who voted for UKIP in Barnsley Central?
Stated UKIP Voters in the Survation survey (n-22) who expressed a past vote intention at the 2010 General Election;
How did Liberal Democrat 2010 Voters vote in Barnsley? (n=25)
Our full original report can be viewed at the following link which contains further information on switching to UKIP from the major parties;
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