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FdI lead by 7.2 points; at this stage, the poll leader was overtaken in both of the last two elections

Where the polls stood 14 months before each of the last two general elections, and what happened next. The biggest move from this point: Lega in 2022, −11.7 points between the polls and the result.

Then and on polling day

The average of the polls around the same point in each cycle (each pollster counted once), the line to polling day, and the result. The dashed line is this point.

2022 6 August 2021
14 months before polling day · 10 polls

Lega led by 0.2. FdI won the vote instead, by 6.9.

0 10 20 30 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
FdI 20.3 26.0 +5.7
Lega 20.5 8.8 −11.7
PD 19.5 19.0 −0.5
M5S 15.7 15.4 −0.3
FI 7.3 8.1 +0.8
Action, Italia Viva 2.3 7.8 +5.5
2018 13 January 2017
14 months before polling day · 16 polls

PD led by 1.6. M5S won the vote instead, by 13.9.

0 10 20 30 40 this pointresult
PartyThenResultMove
M5S 28.6 32.7 +4.1
PD 30.2 18.8 −11.4
Lega 12.8 17.4 +4.6
FI 12.4 14.0 +1.6
FdI 4.4 4.3 −0.1
Verdi e Sinistra 3.5 3.4 −0.1

If the polls move as they did

Today's average, then each party moved by as much as it did between this point and polling day in each past cycle. Where a party did not stand, or polled under another name we cannot match, the cell is blank.

PartyToday As in 2022 As in 2018
FdI 27.6 33.3 27.5
PD 20.4 19.9 9.0
M5S 12.7 12.4 16.8
FI 7.1 7.9 8.7
FN 6.9
Verdi e Sinistra 6.3 7.5 6.2
Lega 5.7 0.0 10.3
Azione 3.1

FdI stays ahead in every one. A party's move in one cycle belongs to that campaign; this shows the size of change that has happened from here, not a forecast. Our forecast →

How this is worked out

For each past election we take every national voting-intention poll published in the fortnight either side of the same point (three weeks, or five where polls were sparse), average each pollster's polls, then average the pollsters. Verdi e Sinistra's line is LeU in 2018.

Polls: Opinion polling for the 2018 Italian general election, Opinion polling for the 2022 Italian general election, Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Results: the national electoral authorities. Today: our poll average, updated with every poll.

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