Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The New York City Mayor's race:
One week from election day

There were a flurry of polls in the New York mayoral race in mid August and then nothing until last week. Now, we have four new polls, but two of them are from the same company, Quinnipiac, so I only count three, using the most recent Quinnipiac, one from amNew York-News 12 and a third from Siena, the polling company hired by The New York Times.
 

Both Quinnipiac and Siena polled mid-month and late month, so I will give their numbers in the form

Candidate recent% (previous %)

Quinnipiac - 9/1 recent, 8/12 previous
De Blasio 43% (30%)
Thompson 20% (22%)
Quinn 18% (24%)
Other 12% (17%)
None of the Above 7% (7%)

Siena - 8/28 recent, 8/7 previous
De Blasio 32% (14%)
Thompson 18% (16%)
Quinn 17% (25%)
Other 16% (19%)
None of the Above 17% (26%)

Both of these polls agree that August was a very good month for De Blasio and a bad month for almost everyone else. We also have a poll from amNew York-News12, who only polled once in August.

amNew York-News12 - 8/27 recent, no previous
De Blasio 29%
Thompson 24%
Quinn 17%
Other 17%
None of the Above 13%

The "median" poll can be a little difficult to judge in a multi-candidate contest. If we consider the race De Blasio vs. Thompson, the Siena poll is the median with a 14% lead.  In this case, De Blasio has about a 27% chance to cross the 40% threshold and win outright, and the Siena poll says the race for second is relatively close, but still gives Thompson a 65% Confidence of Victory over Quinn.

Here are the Confidence of Victory numbers from all three polls.

Quinnipiac
De Blasio outright win: 99.9%
De Blasio-Thompson run-off: 0.08% 
De Blasio-Quinn run-off: 0.02%

Siena
De Blasio outright win: 27.2%
De Blasio-Thompson run-off: 47.3% 
De Blasio-Quinn run-off: 25.5%

amNew York-News 12
De Blasio outright win: 0.1%
De Blasio-Thompson run-off: 99.9% 
De Blasio-Quinn run-off: 0%

There should be at least one more poll from Marist by the end of the week, but unless Siena is right, Quinn is pretty much out of the race.

 



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