SES Research
Nanos Research (previously SES Research) is a Canadian public opinion and research company that was established in 1987 by Nik Nanos Nik Nanos (born in 1964 as Nikita James Nanos) is a Canadian public opinion pollster, entrepreneur, public speaker, author, and expert in political, business and social trends. Early life and education The son of Greek immigrants, he grew up in .... For the 2004 Federal Election, the company launched a publicly available nightly tracking program, the first of its kind in Canadian election history. References *McMurdy, Derdre. "Who is this man, and why is he always right?" ''The Ottawa Citizen.'' Ottawa, Ont.: Oct 22, 2007. pg. A.5 *Bea Vongdouangchanh and Kady O’Malley. “Inside the poll story – who got it right, who got it wrong, and why?” ''Policy Options Magazine'', Montreal, Que.: March 2006. Vol. 26 No. 3, p. 68 *Christian Bourque and Craig Worden. “Measuring voting intention and projecting outcomes for the 2006 Canadian fed ...
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Opinion Poll
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll (although strictly a poll is an actual election) is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals. A person who conducts polls is referred to as a pollster. History The first known example of an opinion poll was a tallies of voter preferences reported on Telegram Messenger to the 1824 presidential election, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency. Since Jackson won the popular vote in that state and the whole country, such straw votes gradually became more popular, but they remained local, usually citywide phenomena. In 1916, ''The Literary Digest'' embarked on a national survey (partly as a circulation-raising exercise) and correc ...
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Nik Nanos
Nik Nanos (born in 1964 as Nikita James Nanos) is a Canadian public opinion pollster, entrepreneur, public speaker, author, and expert in political, business and social trends. Early life and education The son of Greek immigrants, he grew up in Trenton Ontario, Canada attending Dufferin Public School anPrince Charles Public Schoolwith one year aTrenton High School With the sudden death of his father, he moved to Oshawa Ontario and attendeO’Neill Collegiate and Vocational Institutewhere he was the Poet Laureate in his final year of high school. He attended Queen's University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research, as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of thQueen’s Debating Unionand represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history ...
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Opinion Polling In The Canadian Federal Election, 2004
Polls leading up to the 2004 Canadian federal election. Graphical summary National polls During the 37th Parliament of Canada After the creation of the Conservative Party Before the creation of the Conservative Party Regional polls Atlantic Canada Central Canada Quebec = During the election campaign = = In 2004 (before the election campaign) = = In 2003 = = In 2002 = = In 2001 = Ontario Prairies Alberta British Columbia Notes References External links *http://www.canadawebpages.com/pc-polls.asp {{Canadian federal election, 2004A 2004 Canadian federal election 2004 general election Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...