title: British Polling Council
text: # British Polling Council
  
  The British Polling Council (BPC) is an association of market research companies whose opinion polls are regularly published or broadcast in media in the United Kingdom.
  
  The BPC was established in 2004, twelve years after the perceived failure of opinion polls to come close to predicting the actual result of the 1992 United Kingdom general election. BPC members use a range of fieldwork methods (telephone, door-to-door, and internet) and statistical tools.
  
  ## Members
  
  The following organisations are members of the BPC (founding members in bold):
  
  * BMG Research
  * Bradshaw Advisory
  * Censuswide
  * Deltapoll
  * Electoral Calculus
  * Focaldata
  * Forefront Market Research
  * Hanbury Strategy
  * Harris Interactive
  * ICM Research
  * Ipsos MORI
  * J.L. Partners
  * Kantar Public (formerly TNS/System 3)
  * LucidTalk
  * Obsurvant
  * Omnisis
  * Opinium
  * ORB International
  * Panelbase
  * People Polling
  * Portland Communications
  * Public First
  * Redfield & Wilton Strategies
  * SavantaComRes
  * Sky Data
  * Stack Data Strategy
  * Survation
  * Techne
  * WA Communications
  * Yonder Consulting
  * YouGov
  
  NOP (now known as GfK) was a founding member, but is no longer a member as of 2018.
  
  