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Late last night not this morning.
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Earsbern mentioned along same lines as Madp early this morning.
Madp: are you sure about Georgia Today's misreporting of polls? In the UK polls get reported accurately in all the press. Even the Daily Mail would report a poll correctly; it would interpret it to fit its own agenda, but still would report the figures accurately.
Thank you for Clarifying
erazzel - The latest polls don't show a healthy majority for the GD. Georgia Today may want that scenario, but with the PR system in these elections it is highly unlikely, especially with the opposition parties (bar one) all behind one candidate in each of the majority voting seats.
Thanks MadP, really is good to know that. Get the festering GD out!
Earsbern - The opposition parties (bar one) have nominated one candidate to represent all the parties in a united opposition to the GD party, for the seats with majority voting. Therefore, I would expect the GD to get less seats than expected.
Great post sir and again will have a few shall we call them reverse bet folks a tad more prone to the toilet or adult nappies
Thanks for that Earsbern, very helpful!
Thanks to Mp from 00.27 today for the latest poll result.
I don't know why, but the Georgian pollsters seem to have a thing about including the 'don't knows' (19% in the recent poll), and the'won't says' (14%) in the figures as though they, too, are going to vote (they probably aren't!). When opinion poll results are reported in the UK (and, I believe, most other western countries), the DK's and WS's are excluded from the final figures, except as footnotes, as this would normally give a more accurate forecast of the actual election.
In order to translate the latest poll into a western style, multiply each party's figure by 100/67 (67% being the total of those who gave a voting preference). The result of this gives GD 37.3%, NMU 23.1%, EG 7.5%, SB/LP/AP 4.5% each, Girchi/UG 3.7% each, Lelo 3%, Citizens 2.2%, FG 1.5%, Others 4.5%.
To then forecast how many of the 120 proportional seats each party will win, according to the poll, multiply each of the party %'s by 120/100 (or 6/5 if you prefer).
That gives GD 45 proportional seats, NMU 28, EG 9, SB/LP/AP 5 each, Girchi/UG/Lelo 4 each, Citizens 3, FG 2, Others 5.
The GD, as far as I know, has no solid parliamentary support from other parties, other than the Alliance of Patriots (AP) - a very reactionary, extremely pro-orthodox (religion), extremely pro-Russian (and Russian sponsored) party; plus possibly a couple of independents. On the figures above, if the poll is correct, that would give a GD/opposition split in the proportional seats of about 52/67. (Lost one through rounding!).
I presume that the 30 other, majoritarian, seats will split similarly. Those which are won by more than 50% will, I believe, be declared on the election night That should then give us an idea of how the second round for the remaining majoritarian seats will go.
After all this waffle, I must state the obvious - we all know that political opinion polls cannot be entirely relied upon!
Oh, and one final thing. Whatever the eventual result, the GD appears unlikely to have the crushing majority it currently enjoys. One way or another, the new parliament will probably be a very changed beast.