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Exit polls

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Maybe I'm being daft, but is there a reason why exit polls aren't included on the chart? They're a useful point of reference for comparing polling accuracy. --Topperfalkon (talk) 15:38, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Should be in the graph and the table. It was, after all, still a poll. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 18:07, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I've just realised that it is in a table, the estimated seats one. I also can't find any percentages: without the percentages it can't be added to the graph. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 18:11, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I've added the election results to the graph of the whole period. Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 21:10, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that Absolutelypuremilk! Could you please add a line to the end of the graph to show when the election was held? With out one, to me at least, it seems as if there is no definitive end. ZeroRPM, would you be able to do the same for the small graph? Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 22:57, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
No problem! I can't both an "election called" and "date of election" line on without making it look very strange, there's not really enough space. I could remove the election called line if you prefer? Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 07:34, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Lets leave it as it is then. Thanks anyway, Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 13:13, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi all, I'll happily add the exit polls - I can't seem to find the vote percentages though, does anyone have them? Absolutelypuremilk, did you add the exit poll or the final results? I'm not sure how to display both on the graph without things getting messy! ZeroRPM (talk) 11:53, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Scratch that, I found on the BBC page (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40208731), UKIP and Greens have same number so the dots overlap and there was no data for the SNP. So if anyone found numbers at 1 decimal place and for the SNP please share! ZeroRPM (talk) 12:10, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Those weren't exit poll percentages, those were the BBC's projected results based on votes that were in at that time. To my understanding there was no popular vote projection released in the exit poll - I would say remove that from the graph as it was not the exit poll but actual vote figures. FriendlyDataNerdV2 (talk) 12:09, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ZeroRPM, I added the actual results. Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 18:32, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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UK opinion polling for the 2017 election (moving average is calculated from the last ten polls)

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The differences between the points marked along the x-axis are:- 2 months; 2 months; 2 months; 2 months; 2 months; 2 months; 2 months; 2 months; 1 month; 2 months; 3 months; and 2 months.

I presume this is because the labels are months rather than days, in which case, since they are sensibly set at an angle so that room is not an issue, why not include the full date? It might be understood to imply that the axis is non-linear, and that many more polls were carried out between September 2016 and October, and hardly any between December and March 2017. Is this the explanation?

Even if they had all been two month differences, I would prefer to see a full date, or else I don't know whether a tick point for, say, May, means the first of May, or the middle of May. Nick Barnett (talk) 08:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's set that way because Excel very helpfully decides when defining the axes that it should convert the dates to numbers, and therefore I have to set the interval between the tickmarks to be 100 and it to start at 40,650 and finish at 41,500 rather than actually choosing the dates that I want, which roughly corresponds to the correct months but not precisely. It is certainly possible to display the full dates, which I have done here:
UK Polling 2017 with full dates

Would others prefer this? Bellowhead678 (talk) 22:30, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sun polls

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The same editor has also removed polls from 2015, which I have BRDed and opened a talk discussion there. Pinging @Rwendland:, who reverted this page. Spa-Franks (talk) 21:08, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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