Latest Siena poll in New York: Democrats hold very clear lead
The results of a new poll, conducted by Siena in New York, were released on April 17. 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, 57.0% said that they plan to vote for the Democrats, whereas 34.0% declared that they would give their vote to the Republicans. This poll was conducted from February 28 to March 3, among a random sample of 800 registered voters. Results have a +/-4.1 percentage points error margin.
Translating these results into two-party vote shares yields figures of 62.6% for the democrat Hillary Clinton and 37.4% for the republican Donald Trump. The democrats did worse by 1.0 percentage points in comparison to the average results of the other polls in New York.