Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – research ...

The Yorkshire Post brings the news: The Liberal Democrats have said they are in “pole position” to win the Hull and East Yorkshire mayoral election, as they announced their candidate Coun Mike Ross.

A dozen principal authority council by-elections this week, with 11 Lib Dem candidates, up three on the last time these wards ...

The Electoral Commission’s report into the 2024 general election and the earlier local elections is now out. It includes some data showing that, once again, it was a fifthteenth century technology ...

Five Christmas, birthday, wedding, graduation, driving test pass, citizenship acquisition or candidate selection victory gift ideas for that special person you know. (And more tasteful than some ...

– indicates that party didn’t feature in the polling questions separate from ‘Others’ or that the data is not yet available. Numbers in brackets show change since the previous comparable poll (i.e. by ...

Each row shows the net gains or losses for that party, broken down by where those gains/losses have come from. Each cell shows the net gains/losses, followed by in brackets the total number of gains ...

Photo by Gagan Cambow on Pexels.com. With not even all the results in, it’s too early to be thinking seriously about the lessons from the US elections, though there will certainly be ones for both ...

In semi-democracies, and especially in non-democracies, political opinion polling is often restricted by authoritarians not wishing the public to know what the public thinks. Although that itself ...

One of the helpers in this photo is a cousin of JRR Tolkien. It was off resident surveying with the team in Brent this morning, and particularly good to see help come over from Ealing too. Why mention ...

The 2024 US elections are bringing all sorts of weird stories and eye-catching adverts, and perhaps none more so than one of the races in Virginia, where Derrick Anderson is the Republican candidate.