Quinnipiac poll in New York: Democrats are in the lead
The results of a new poll, conducted by Quinnipiac in New York, were published on April 11. 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. According to the results, 53.0% of respondents plan to vote for the Democratic Party, while 33.0% plan to vote for the Republican Party. The poll was conducted from March 22 to March 29 among 1667 likely voters. Figures have a +/-2.4 percentage points error margin.
Converting these results into two-party vote shares yields figures of 61.6% for the Democrats and 38.4% for the Republicans. The vote share for the democrats is 0.8 percentage points under the average results of other polls in New York.