North Carolina: New Elon University poll shows Democrats in the lead

Results of a new poll conducted by Elon University were released on April 14. Participants from North Carolina were asked, who they would give their vote to, if the election were today. The results show that 47.0% of participants will vote for the democrat Hillary Clinton, whereas 41.0% said they would vote for the republican Donald Trump. The poll was carried out from February 15 to February 17 among 1530 likely voters. The sampling error is +/-2.5 points.

Translating these results into two-party vote shares yields values of 53.4% for the Democrats and 46.6% for the Republicans. The republicans did better by 2.3 percentage points in comparison to the average results of the other polls in North Carolina.

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