Green Party on 6% in national poll

Ipsos MORI has put the Green Party on 6%, just 4% behind the Lib Dems on a General  Election poll. That is really stunning and a great testament to the hard work done by Greens up and down the country. Just think how much higher that would be if it were an election conducted under proportional representation...

This is the detail from Ipsos MORI:

Which party are you most inclined to support?
Base: All absolutely certain to vote (602) Q1a/b

Conservative 35%
Labour 42%
Liberal Democrats (Lib Dem) 10%
Scottish/Welsh Nationalist 4%
Green Party 6%
UK Independence Party 2%
British National Party 1%
Other 1%

German Greens

Slogging hard to get the nomination papers completed and in this week but bouyed by the news yeasterday from Germany. Baden-Württemberg has gone Green and ousted Merkel's Christian Democrats (in an SPD / Green coalition). This is from the Indy and this from Jim Jepps, the feeling is that the disaster in Japan gave teh Greens a final boost.

The German Greens had been around 20% for a while so were due for a good result soon. Let's hope we can get some good results here in a few weeks time. My previous post on regional polls suggests thing are looking up for radical politics!

Baden-Württemberg results:

Party	Vote %	Change	Seats	Change
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	39	-5.2	60	-9
The Greens	24.2	12.5	36	19
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	23.1	-2.1	35	-3
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	5.3	-5.4	7	-8
Die Linke	2.8	-0.3
Pirate Party	2.1	2.1
The Republicans	1.1	-1.4
All Others	2.4

Polls

Two interesting polls out this month. Firstly in the South West a Marketing Means poll put the Greens on 6% in a General Election poll where the Greens weren't mentioned in the question. This lack of prompt pushes our numbers down, making 6% a very good poll.

Secondly, A Com Res poll in London put us on 7%, just behind the Lib Dems on 9%. This is great news for the Assembly elections next year as Peter points out. We are ahead of the LDs in two age groups.

Finally, The LDs seems to have won a by-election and are jumping up and down with joy, citing this as a massive swing from the Tories to them. The reality is that their vote share increased by 3% while standing against the Tories and UKIP. Last time there was no UKIP, just the Tories and LDs and it seems that UKIP split the Tory vote in two. What a shame that we didn't stand a candidate though.