article_snippet.sent: Deputy Prime Minister is trailing Labour by 2 per cent in Deputy Prime Minister formally rock-solid Lib Dem constituency, Sheffield Hallam.
article_snippet.sent: Nick Clegg is trailing Labour by two points in Nick Clegg formally rock-solid Lib Dem constituency in Sheffield, a poll revealed this morning .
article_snippet.sent: But a poll by the Tory peer Lord Ashcroft shows 36 per cent of voters in Sheffield Hallam are now planning to vote for Nick Clegg Labour opponent Oliver Coppard - compared with 34 per cent who said they would support Deputy Prime Minister.
article_snippet.sent: These include one Tory-held and seven Lib Dem constituencies.
article_snippet.sent: The polling suggests that the Lib Dems will hold on in four seats, reinforcing the party's claim that the party will do much better than national surveys suggest.
article_snippet.sent: On a national level, a poll of polls puts Labour and the Tories neck and neck on 34 per cent, with Ukip on 13 per cent and the Lib Dems trailing on just eight per cent.
article_snippet.sent: (right) the Lib Dems say internal polling shows an average 9 per cent increase in the vote for internal polling party when candidates are named, but could not say whether this was true in Nick Clegg case.
article_snippet.sent: The spokesman said failing to put an average 9 per cent increase in the vote for their party when candidates are named name down, as on the ballot paper, would not yield an accurate result.
article_snippet.sent: Since 2010 there have been 16 local elections in the constituency of which the Lib Dems have won 14.
article_snippet.sent: In the last set of local election sin 2014, the Lib Dems won in 4 out of the five wards in Sheffield Hallam. 
article_snippet.sent: Across the constituency of which the Lib Dems have won 14 their party got 38.7 per cent of the vote, Labour got 23.6 per cent and the Tories came fifth on 10.7 per cent.
highlights_snippet.sent: Lib Dem leader is trailing Labour in Sheffield Hallam constituency .
  