In every seat, Labour votes fell compared with the 1997 general election, on average by over half.
On average during these years, the challenging candidate trailed by 1.5 percentage points in polls conducted just after the first debate — and the challenger eventually lost the election, on average, by 1.4 percentage points, a nearly identical margin.
The polls during this period are not that much different from those in Column D. Nor were they much different from the eventual election results on average.
Ben Page, the chief executive of Ipsos Mori, told the Today programme: "If you look at the opinion polls at all of the elections since 1959, on average the polls have overstated the Labour share of the vote by 1.4%.
Mr. Erikson and Mr. Wlezien in their study of the 1952-2008 prelectionsl elections find: On average, the party that gains from before to after the conventions maintains its gains in the final week's polls…Although the convention season is the time for multiple bounces in the polls, one party ends up with an advantage when the dust clears.
In the 2016 presidential election, black voters, on average, waited 16 minutes to vote, while Latino voters waited 13 minutes, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology survey of voters.
Expected years of life after national election were based on average person of same age and sex as candidate, taken from historical life tables as described in Methods.
Despite the splintering of parties, Denmark has enjoyed stable government, with new elections on an average of once every three years.
Some may eventually pick up the politics of their Tory neighbours (see article), but so far the shifts are benefiting Labour more than the Conservative Party.According to Tony Travers, an authority on local government at the London School of Economics, in the 1980s Labour's local-election results were, on average, ten points lower in Croydon than citywide.
Hugo Chavez's successful change of the Venezuelan constitution in 1999 was followed by a constant cycle of national elections -- one a year on average.
6 This study did not account for age at election, which may confound analysis if elected candidates were on average older than runner-up candidates, as we found to be true.
