Virginia: Lead for Democrats in new Roanoke College poll

The results of a new poll, conducted by Roanoke College in Virginia, were published on April 25. 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 answered the question, 52.0% said that they will vote for the Democrats, whereas 35.0% declared that they would give their vote to the Republicans. The poll was conducted from January 18 to January 26 among 524 likely voters. The sampling error is +/-4.3 points.

Translating these results into two-party vote shares yields values of 59.8% for the democrat Hillary Clinton and 40.2% for the republican Donald Trump.

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