LONDON (REUTERS) - Opinion polls published in the days before Thursday's (June 23) referendum have mostly shown a shift towards keeping Britain in the European Union, but the "In" camp's lead is small and most pollsters say the race still looks too close to call.
Prior to this week's polls, in the period between June 10 and 16, "Out" led in seven of nine polls, rattling markets around the world.
Betting odds, provided by gambling firm Betfair on Thursday, gave the "Remain" campaign an 86 per cent probability of winning, up from as low as 59 per cent last week.
Here is a summary of the most recent polls:
POPULUS - "REMAIN" AHEAD BY 10 POINTS
Online polling by Populus put support for remaining in the European Union at 55 per cent, with 45 per cent backing Brexit, in figures published on Thursday as voting was under way.
The poll of 4,700 was carried out on Tuesday and up to midnight on Wednesday night.
IPSOS MORI/EVENING STANDARD - REMAIN AHEAD BY 4 POINTS
A telephone poll by Ipsos Mori suggested 52 per cent of British voters would opt to remain in the European Union and 48 per cent would vote to leave.
The poll of 1,592 people was commissioned by the Evening Standard newspaper and the research was conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, up until 8pm GMT on Wednesday.
COMRES/ITV/DAILY MAIL - "REMAIN" AHEAD BY 6 POINTS
A ComRes telephone poll of 1,032 adults showed "Remain" on 48 per cent and "Leave" on 42 per cent on Wednesday, compared with a 46 per cent-45 per cent split in a previous poll on June 14.
Excluding those who did not know how or if they would vote,"Remain" was on 54 per cent and "Leave" on 46 per cent.
YOUGOV/THE TIMES - "REMAIN" AHEAD BY 2 POINTS
A YouGov online poll of 3,766 adults showed "Remain" on 51 per cent and "Leave" on 49 per cent, after weighting responses for likely turnout and excluding those who did not know how they were likely to vote.
A previous YouGov poll for the Times on June 20, which used different adjustments, showed "Remain" on 42 per cent and "Leave" on 44 per cent.
TNS - "LEAVE" AHEAD BY 2 POINTS
The campaign for Britain to leave the European Union has a two-point lead over the rival "In" camp, down from a seven-point lead last week, according to a TNS poll published on Wednesday TNS said 43 per cent of respondents would vote to leave, while 41 per cent would vote to remain and 16 per cent were undecided or did not intend to vote.
OPINIUM - "LEAVE" AHEAD BY 1 POINT
Opinium said the campaigns were effectively running neck and neck as the online poll put support for "Leave" at 45 per cent and "Remain" at 44 per cent, with the remaining 9 per cent of respondents still undecided.
The poll was based on 3,011 interviews conducted between June 20 and 22.
Opinium's previous poll, published on Saturday, had put the two camps level at 44 per cent, based on polling between June 14 and 17.
SURVATION/IG - "IN" AHEAD BY 1 POINT
A Survation poll of just over 1,000 people for IG Group on Tuesday put the "In" camp at 45 per cent, ahead of "Out" on 44 per cent, representing a narrowing of its lead.
Survation's previous poll, for the Mail on Sunday newspaper and published late on Saturday, had shown "In" ahead of "Out" by 3 percentage points.
The new Survation poll was conducted by telephone on Monday. Excluding the 11 per cent of respondents who answered "don't know", the survey gave "In" a lead of 51 per cent to 49 per cent, IG said.
ORB/DAILY TELEGRAPH - "IN" AHEAD BY 7 POINTS
An ORB telephone poll of 800 people for the Daily Telegraph newspaper, published late on Monday, put support for "In" at 53 per cent, with "Out" on 46 per cent.
The previous poll by ORB, published a week earlier, had put the "Out" camp ahead by one point. "All the signs of ORB's latest and final poll point to a referendum that will truly come down to the wire," said Mr Lynton Crosby, a political strategist who advised the ruling Conservative Party at the last national election in 2015.
YOUGOV/THE TIMES - "OUT" AHEAD BY 2 POINTS
A YouGov online poll for the Times newspaper, also published late on Monday, gave "Out" a 44 per cent to 42 per cent lead over "In".
YouGov's previous poll had put "In" one point ahead when it was published in the Sunday Times newspaper.
The survey interviewed 1,652 people between Friday and Sunday. Of those questioned, 9 percent said they did not know how they would vote and 4 percent said they would not vote.
NATCEN - "IN" AHEAD BY 6 POINTS
A poll from the social research organisation conducted between May 16 and June 12 put the "In" camp on 53 per cent, while the "Out" camp was on 47 per cent.
The survey, conducted online and by telephone, had a sample size of 1,632 respondents. Sixty-five per cent of the interviews were done by May 26.
YOUGOV - AFTER VOTING CLOSES
The findings of a YouGov poll, based on interviews conducted online on Thursday, are due to be announced by Sky News after the close of voting at 2100 GMT.
