March 21, 2015
Latest by-election results: a lacklustre win for Labour
One solitary council by-election this week. It took place in the Rhyl South West ward of Denbighshire county council, and saw Labour easily hold the seat: The turnout was 20%,…
One solitary council by-election this week. It took place in the Rhyl South West ward of Denbighshire county council, and saw Labour easily hold the seat: The turnout was 20%,…
Despite spending much of the autumn of 2014 ruling out an election pact, the Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionists have this week gone ahead and agreed just that….
Can big, long speeches about economics made in the House of Commons on a weekday lunchtime ever pack enough punch to shift the mood of the entire nation? Of course…
Lord Ashcroft published his latest crop of constituency polls yesterday. They were from a selection of seats in the Tory-Labour battleground, as I previewed at the start of the week….
It wasn’t that many elections ago that party political broadcasts were quite an event, with the main TV channels broadcasting them virtually simultaneously and audiences tuning in dutifully if unenthusiastically…
We’re due another batch of constituency polls this week from Lord Ashcroft. He hasn’t said precisely which seats he’s surveyed, or even when he’ll be releasing his data. All we…
The Electoral Reform Society published a report a couple of days ago on the number of female MPs likely to be in the next parliament. It concluded that we could…
From time to time, council by-elections are settled not by a ballot but by nobody else bothering to contest the seat. So it proved this week in the Western Isles,…
It’s been a long time coming and much anticipated, but the moment has finally arrived. The Conservatives’ monthly poll average has moved ahead of Labour for the first time since…
While the national media has been fixated on what could happen in Scotland at the election, next to no attention has been paid to Wales. If the nationalists are on…