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Opinion polling for the 1966 United Kingdom general election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ105730664 ↗
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In the run-up to the 1966 general election, various polling organisations conducted opinion polling to gauge voting intention amongst the general public. Such polls, dating from the previous election in 1964 to polling day on 31 March 1966, are listed in this article.

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This entry incorporates text from “Opinion polling for the 1966 United Kingdom general election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.