From polls to votes to seats: forecasting the 2010 British general election
From polls to votes to seats: forecasting the 2010 British general election
This paper outlines and discusses techniques for three stages in forecasting parliamentary seats from British opinion polls: adjusting and aggregating published vote-intention figures from across different polls; forecasting how public opinion might change before election day; and predicting the seat totals from the forecasted election-day vote shares. Specifically, we consider a state-space model for opinion polls which correct for house effects and other sources of survey error, the estimation of the historical relationship between polls and the election-day share of the vote, and a probabilistic approach to predicting the winner in each constituency.
british elections, forecasting elections, opinion polls, state-space model, house effects
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Fisher, Stephen D.
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Ford, Robert
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Jennings, Will
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Pickup, Mark
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Wlezien, Christopher
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June 2011
Fisher, Stephen D.
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Ford, Robert
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Jennings, Will
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Pickup, Mark
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Wlezien, Christopher
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Fisher, Stephen D., Ford, Robert, Jennings, Will, Pickup, Mark and Wlezien, Christopher
(2011)
From polls to votes to seats: forecasting the 2010 British general election.
[in special issue: Special Symposium: Electoral Forecasting Symposium]
Electoral Studies, 30 (2), .
(doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2010.09.005).
Abstract
This paper outlines and discusses techniques for three stages in forecasting parliamentary seats from British opinion polls: adjusting and aggregating published vote-intention figures from across different polls; forecasting how public opinion might change before election day; and predicting the seat totals from the forecasted election-day vote shares. Specifically, we consider a state-space model for opinion polls which correct for house effects and other sources of survey error, the estimation of the historical relationship between polls and the election-day share of the vote, and a probabilistic approach to predicting the winner in each constituency.
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Published date: June 2011
Keywords:
british elections, forecasting elections, opinion polls, state-space model, house effects
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Politics & International Relations
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Local EPrints ID: 336581
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/336581
ISSN: 0261-3794
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Stephen D. Fisher
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Robert Ford
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Mark Pickup
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Christopher Wlezien
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