Latest Roanoke College poll in Virginia: Democrats hold very clear advantage
The results of a new poll, conducted on behalf of Roanoke College in Virginia, were published on March 30. In the survey participants were asked, whether they would vote for democrat Hillary Clinton or republican Donald Trump, assuming that these two candidates would win the primaries. Of those who responded, 52.0% revealed that they are going to vote for the Democrats, while 35.0% revealed that they would give their vote to the Republicans. This poll was conducted from January 18 to January 26, among a random sample of 524 likely voters. The error margin is +/-4.3 percentage points.
Converting these results into two-party vote shares yields figures of 59.8% for the democrat Hillary Clinton and 40.2% for the republican Donald Trump. In comparison to the average results of other polls in Virginia The democrats did worse in this poll.