Poll Average Details- AB Parliament - Calgary Centre - 2015-10-19 20:30:00

The Poll Average is a weighted and adjusted number.
[Mid Date Column] All times are calculated by the middle date of the poll if it spans multiple days.
A time window of 2 months prior to the most recent poll is used.
[Time Weight Column] Polls are weighted in the amount they contribute to the final results in a linear fashion in this time window - the newest poll has a weight of 1, a poll 30 days prior will have a weight of 0.5 and a poll 60 days out will have a weight of 0. If the same pollster has more than one poll in this time period, only the newest will be used.
[Internal Column] If a poll is marked as being an internal poll for one of the candidates, it's weight will be halved.
[Candidate Columns, Bias] OurCampaigns has calculated partisan bias figures for all Polling Firms based on data from final vote totals in races they have polled. These amounts are subtracted from the poll result - in the case the bias figure is negative it will effectively be added to the poll result and appear as two dashes (minus a negative = plus). [TOTAL Row] The adjusted weights are summed for each poll result and the adjusted poll results for each candidate are multiplied by the poll weight and then summed. Each candidate's poll sum is divided by their weight sum to give the total.

PollMid DateTime WeightInternal Kent Hehr Kent HehrJoan Crockatt Jillian Ratti Thana Boonlert Yogi Henderson
Mainstreet Research10/13X 1.00000   38.0000 - -1.2213 bias 37.0000 - -1.0095 bias 19.0000 - 0.4056 bias 6.0000 - 2.1777 bias  
Environics9/20X 0.61667   39.0000 - -6.4640 bias 47.0000 - 0.4937 bias 11.0000 - 4.2708 bias 3.0000 - 1.6483 bias  
TOTAL 41.602536 41.250547 14.068499 2.879906 0.000000