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Abstract The winners of the General Election in May were not the political parties but the opinion pollsters, says Paul Baines. After 1992, when most pollsters predicted a hung parliament rather than a Conservative win, and 2001, when they overestimated the Labour lead, the 2005 election result was awaited by many pollsters with trepidation. Would their final eve-of-poll results be accurate or not?

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