Pollster · Academic

Wesleyan University Survey Lab

Research draft
Polls since 2024
1
Latest poll ended
October 7, 2026

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

SurveyLab at Wesleyan University says on its website that it aims to engage students in the design, collection and analysis of public opinion data, and a May 2023 university news story says the lab was founded that year and had released its first public poll of Connecticut voters.1,2 Its About page lists three team leads from the Government Department: Erika Franklin Fowler, Logan Dancey and Steven T. Moore.1 Its October 2026 Connecticut poll of 1,000 registered voters, fielded September 22 to October 7, says The Connecticut Project paid for the poll and that The Connecticut Project and CT Mirror gave input on its design.3

Kind
Academic1,2
Founded
20232

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Part of

  • Wesleyan University. The lab's site and the university's 2023 news story present SurveyLab as a Wesleyan University lab run by faculty of its Government Department.1,2

Fieldwork or panel by

  • YouGov (2023–now). Its April 2023 Connecticut poll, its October 2024 national pre-election survey and its October 2026 Connecticut poll each say YouGov fielded the survey online from its panel.3,4,5

Led by

  • Erika Franklin Fowler. The SurveyLab About page lists Erika Franklin Fowler of the Government Department as a team lead.1
  • Logan Dancey. The SurveyLab About page lists Logan Dancey of the Government Department as a team lead, and the 2023 university news story calls him a director of the survey.1,2
  • Steven T. Moore. The SurveyLab About page lists Steven T. Moore of the Government Department as a team lead.1

Published with

Names its polls have been published under, alongside other pollsters or news outlets.

  • Wesleyan University Survey Lab/YouGov: YouGov · 1 poll listed

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first6. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
SponsorPollsBetweenFlagged party-aligned
CT Mirror1October 7, 2026No
The Connecticut Project1October 7, 2026No

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Doesn’t say whom it works for. The SurveyLab pages read, including its About page and its October 2026 poll release, do not say whether it works for candidates or parties.1,3

Of its 1 poll listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor6.

§4Its polls

The 1 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
September 22–October 7, 2026Governor · 2026 ConnecticutNed Lamont 57 · Ryan Fazio 34YouGovCT Mirror, The Connecticut Project— LV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

  • No standing news partner or non-news client was found; CT Mirror and The Connecticut Project are named only on the October 2026 poll, and the April 2023 Connecticut poll release names no sponsor.
  • No funding source for the lab itself was found.
  • Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling, regulator action or retraction concerning the lab; aggregator statements about excluding or reweighting its polls are gathered in a separate sweep and were not searched here.