ITV News Instant Debate Poll

ComRes instant poll results for ITV News

Date Published: 21 Apr 2010

Categories: Energy | Media | Politics | Public and communities | Technology & Telecoms | UK

Description

ComRes instant poll results for ITV News:

·         Clegg wins by a narrow margin

·         Brown & Cameron neck and neck in debate

·         Clegg seen as most honest in debate

·         Brown most met expectations

Sample size 2691 viewers of tonight’s debate

Which party leader do you think won the debate tonight?

 

	THIS WEEK	LAST WEEK
Brown	30%	20%
Cameron	30%	26%
Clegg	33%	43%
None/DK	7%	11%

 

Voting intention after last week’s debate

Which party would you vote for?

 

Conservative	36%
Labour	24%
Lib Dem	35%
Other	5%

 

Voting intention after this week’s debate

Which party would you vote for?

 

Conservative	35%
Labour	24%
Lib Dem	36%
Other	5%

 

Which party leader do you think gave the most honest answers in the debate tonight?

 

Brown	23%
Cameron	29%
Clegg	43%
None/DK	5%

 

Which party leader, if any, do you think performed better than expected?

 

Brown	47%
Cameron	27%
Clegg	21%
None/DK	5%

 

 

 

Comment from Deborah Turness, Editor of ITV News:

 

“Once again our instant poll with ComRes gave us a unique snapshot of voter opinion. The sample was huge and the view from the sofa clear. Thanks to this pioneering poll News at Ten was the only news programme able to truly, immediately gauge reaction to the debate.”

 

Comment from Andrew Hawkins, ComRes Chairman:

 

 “This was a much closer fight, and it was noticeable how each of the leaders had developed their lines of defence and attack better since last week.  There was more proper debate this week, more drama and better engagement with both each other and with the issues.”

Full tables can be downloaded below: