Patterson Research Group began operations in the East Coast in 1984. We opened our Perth office in May 1988 to be able to locally manage our expanding services to our Western Australian clients, in particular the public opinion polling work for the West Australian Newspaper (WestPoll).

Indeed our polling program (FlashPoll) was published monthly as WestPoll for many years, and is still used in the important phases of the electoral cycle. FlashPoll became the basis for our high profile opinion polling program which has established us as the most reliable market research specialist in Western Australia today.