List of polling organizations explained

This is a list of notable polling organizations by country. All the major television networks, alone or in conjunction with the largest newspapers or magazines, in virtually every country with elections, operate their own versions of polling operations, in collaboration or independently through various applications.

Several organizations try to monitor the behavior of polling firms and the use of polling and statistical data, including the Pew Research Center and, in Canada, the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy.^[1]

Australia

• AC Nielsen Polling – formerly published in Fairfax newspapers, withdrawn in 2014
• Essential Media Communications – formerly published on Crikey website, now in Guardian Australia
• Galaxy Research – now part of YouGov
• Ipsos Australia – published in Nine Entertainment's former Fairfax newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Financial Review, but withdrew from political polling after an unpredicted result in the 2019 election,^[2] although continues the relationship with other polls^[3]
• Newspoll – published in News Limited's The Australian newspaper
• ReachTEL – used by Nine Entertainment for single-seat and state election polling
• Roy Morgan Research – published online and given away
• UComms, which has links to unions ACTU and CFMMEU – formerly used by Fairfax, then by Nine Entertainment for single-seat and state elections
• YouGov – published in News Limited's Weekly Times^[4]

Brazil

• IBOPE (Instituto Brasileiro de Opinião Pública e Estatística) which acronym has become the Brazilian household word for TV audience rating and a slang word that indicates that a meeting or similar function had significant attendance.
• OPUS Research

Canada

• Abacus Data
• EKOS Research Associates
• Environics Research Group
• Forum Research
• Ipsos-Reid
• Léger Marketing
• Mainstreet Research
• Pollara

France

• Harris Insights & Analytics
• Institut français d'opinion publique
• Ipsos
• Kantar TNS
• Médiamétrie
  • OpinionWay
• CSA
• Odoxa
• Elabe

Germany

• Allensbach Institute
• Forsa institute
• Infratest dimap

India

• PoliticalEDGE

Iran

• Ayandeh – closed in 2002 and director Abbas Abdi arrested^[5]

Mexico

• Ipsos
• Rubrum

New Zealand

• Colmar Brunton

Philippines

• Pulse Asia
• Social Weather Stations

Ukraine

• Kyiv International Institute of Sociology
• Rating Group Ukraine
• Razumkov Centre A policy think tank also widely published throughout Ukraine^[6]
• Research & Branding Group, widely published throughout Ukraine and Internationally. Works include exit polls and regular surveys of the public's political opinions^{[7] [8]}

United Kingdom

• ComRes, retained pollster for the BBC and The Independent
• ICM
• Ipsos MORI (formerly MORI)
• Populus, official The Times pollster
• Qriously
• Survation, pollster to The Mail on Sunday, Daily Mirror, Daily Record and Sky News
• Kantar Group
• YouGov

United States

Statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight maintains a list of pollsters who conduct surveys in U.S. political elections and assigns each pollster a rating based on its methodology and historical accuracy.^[9] Silver also lists the number of polls analyzed for each pollster.^[9]

• Cygnal^{[10] [11] [12]}
• Elway Research
• Emerson College Polling^[13]
• Field Research Corporation (Field Poll) – see Mervin Field
• Franklin Pierce University Polling^[14]
• Gallup Poll
• Harris Insights & Analytics
• Ipsos
  • Marist Institute for Public Opinion Monmouth University Polling Institute
• Morning Consult
• NORC at the University of Chicago (formerly the National Opinion Research Center)
• Nielsen ratings
• Pew Research Center
• Public Policy Institute of California
• Public Policy Polling
• Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
• Rasmussen Reports
• Research 2000 (defunct)
• Siena Research Institute at Siena College
• St. Norbert College Strategic Research Institute (Wisconsin Survey)
• Suffolk University Political Research Center (SUPRC)
• SurveyMonkey
• SurveyUSA
• Susquehanna Polling & Research
• Trafalgar Group
• University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Public Opinion^[15]
• University of New Hampshire Survey Center (Granite State Poll)^[16]
• YouGov
• Zogby International

See also

• National Election Pool (United States)

Notes and References

1. http://www.wlu.ca/lispop/ Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy
2. Web site: Wahlquist . Calla . Sydney Morning Herald and Age to stop running Ipsos poll after surprise election result . the Guardian . 23 May 2019 . 12 February 2022.
3. Web site: Singhal . Pallavi . Topsfield . Jewel . Topic - Ipsos poll . . 5 February 2021 . 12 February 2022.
4. Web site: Who controls opinion polling in Australia, what else we need to know about the polls, and why it matters . Inside Story . 15 May 2019 . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220211/https://insidestory.org.au/who-controls-opinion-polling-in-australia/ . 2022-02-11 . live. 11 February 2022.
5. http://www.campaigns.ifex.org/fr/content/view/full/17831 Alert. Journalist Abdollah Nouri released but another journalist arrested
6. Думка громадян України про підсумки 2008 р. (опитування), Razumkov Centre (December 26, 2008)
7. Web site: Research&Branding Group Poll: 26% Of Ukrainians Prepared To Support Yanukovych For President. August 19, 2009. The FINANCIAL website. 2010-02-11.
8. http://www.rb.com.ua/eng/files/779/file/Press-release_june_2009.pdf Poll: "CHANGE OF ELECTORAL SITUATION IN UKRAINE – June 2009"
9. Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight's Pollster Ratings, FiveThirtyEight (last accessed October 6, 2016).
10. Web site: Buchanan . Brent . 2018-12-06 . Why the New York Times Named Us the Most Accurate Pollster in the Country . 2023-06-19 . Cygnal . en-US.
11. News: Cohn . Nate . 2023-02-03 . Is Trump Way Up or Way Down? . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-06-19 . 0362-4331.
12. Web site: Silver . Nate . 2023-03-09 . Pollster Ratings - Cygnal . 2023-06-19 . FiveThirtyEight . en.
13. Web site: Emerson College Polling . 2022-03-21 . Emerson College . en.
14. Web site: Franklin Pierce University Polling . 2022-03-21 . www.franklinpierce.edu . en.
15. Web site: Center for Public Opinion Polls Research UMass Lowell . 2022-03-21 . www.uml.edu.
16. Web site: 2018-10-30 . Granite State Poll . 2022-03-21 . College of Liberal Arts . en.