A NEW poll predicts the Conservatives to steamroll to victory by more than 13 per cent of the vote ahead of the General Election next week.
The poll, by More in Common, projects a Tory wipeout across the country, with the Conservative party on course for its worst defeat in over a century only winning 155 seats, while Labour is expected to take 406 - a majority of 162.
However in Andover, which falls under the North West Hampshire constituency, the Conservatives are set to win 13.4 per cent ahead of Labour.
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The poll predicts a thorough victory for the Tories, with candidate Kit Malthouse projected 39.9 per cent of the vote, with Labour's candidate, Andy Fitchet predicted 26.5 per cent.
Liberal Democrat candidate, Luigi Gregori, is predicted to take third place, with 19.2 per cent while Reform UK's Andy Meacham is projected 7.6 per cent of the vote and the Green Party's Hisa West is predicted to take 4.9 per cent of the votes in the constituency.
Other candidates, including Hampshire Independent's Phil Heath, are predicted to just 1.8 per cent of the vote.
The survey is based on MRP (multilevel regression and post-stratification analysis), which is less effective at predicting seat distribution for smaller parties.
It uses data from a voting intention poll to model how people will vote based on their demographics, voting behaviour and information about their constituency.
These results are then applied to the demographic and electoral makeup of each constituency to make a constituency-level prediction.
More in Common adds: "MRP models don’t account for local factors that impact a small number of constituencies, such as a popular incumbent, well-known or controversial council policy Therefore it would be a mistake to draw too much from the projected vote share in an individual constituency."
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