The Conservatives were able to hand a very mild drubbing to their erstwhile MP Douglas Carswell in this week’s council by-elections. A seat on Essex county council was up for…
1. Heywood was not a Labour stronghold The media has made much reference to the seat being “rock solid” or “very safe” for Labour. It wasn’t. Jim Dobbin’s majority was…
Voters go to the polls today to choose new MPs for the constituencies of Clacton and Heywood & Middleton. For anyone planning on staying up, the result from Clacton is…
The recent run of opinion polls showing the Conservatives enjoying a small lead over Labour has understandably attracted a fair bit of comment. It’s rare for voting intentions to switch…
It’s that point in the calendar where I offer my latest prediction of the election result. Precisely seven months away from polling day, I’m once again forecasting a hung parliament,…
We don’t yet have a date for the Rochester & Strood by-election, but we do have our first opinion poll. It was carried out by Survation on behalf of the…
Thursday’s by-elections in Clacton and Heywood & Middleton, plus the forthcoming as-yet-unscheduled contest in Rochester & Strood, will bring the total number of by-elections in this parliament to 21. It’s…
Only one of this week’s seven council by-elections saw a seat change hands – and it was a gain by Ukip. The party narrowly won a seat from Labour on…
Last week I wondered why there had been no polls conducted in Heywood & Middleton ahead of the by-election on 9 October. Well, now one has been carried out by…
The New Statesman’s political editor George Eaton tweeted on Tuesday that there were “lots [of people] at the Tory conference encouraged by the potential for the SNP to take Scottish…
UK elections 2015 