Voting intention: September 2011

This blog will produce a monthly score for each party based on a simple system: the average topline voting intention scores taken from the most recent polls from the five big firms - ICM, Ipsos MORI, YouGov, ComRes and Populus.

Where there is no voting intention poll taken by a particular firm with the previous month, they will be left out of the monthly average.

At the end of September, having fallen back over the last month or so, Labour look to have slightly recovered - they are currently sitting just under 3 points ahead of the Conservative Party. The Liberal Democrats are polling slightly higher than they have been for quite some time: the anger at the Party that witnessed the sub-10% You Gov polls of the recent past appears to have melted away.

	Conservative	Labour	Lib Dems
MONTHLY SCORE	36	39	12
POLLING HIGH	38	42	14
POLLING LOW	34	37	11