2019 MA Polls

Poll Documents

Press Release

Suffolk University/Boston Globe Senate Poll Shows Strong Kennedy Advantage vs. Markey 

Statement of Methodology

This survey of 500 registered Massachusetts voters was conducted between September 3 and September 5, 2019, and is based on live telephone interviews of adults who indicated that they plan to vote in the September 2020 State Democratic primary. Each area’s quota and demographic information -- including race and age -- was determined from exit polling data of previous Massachusetts State Democratic Primaries as well as American Community Survey Census data. Samples of both standard landlines and cell phones were called using a probability-proportionate-to-size method, which means that the phone numbers assigned to each county were proportional to the number of likely voters expected based on similar past elections. The 14 Massachusetts counties were grouped into four general regions. Respondents in the household were selected by initially asking for the youngest adult. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is +/- 4.4 percentage points. Error margins increase for smaller subgroups in the cross-tabulation document that follows. All surveys may be subject to other sources of error, including but not limited to coverage error and measurement error.

Poll Documents

Press Release

Poll: Mass. Voters Would Opt for Tax Increase to Put Public Schools on Equal Footing

Statement of Methodology

This survey of 600 registered Massachusetts voters was conducted between June 5 and June 9, 2019, and is based on live telephone interviews. Each area’s quota and demographic information -- including race and age -- was determined from 2010 Census data. Samples of both standard landlines and cell phones were called using a probability-proportionate-to-size method, which means that the phone numbers assigned to each county were proportional to the number of likely voters expected based on similar past elections. The 14 Massachusetts counties were grouped into four general regions. Respondents in the household were selected by initially asking for the youngest adult. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is +/- 4.0 percentage points. Error margins increase for smaller subgroups in the cross-tabulation document that follows. All surveys may be subject to other sources of error, including but not limited to coverage error and measurement error.