April 10, 2015
The candidate total: what we already know
Nominations closed yesterday for the general election. The full list of candidates will take a little while to become publicly known, but it’s safe to say a record number of…
Nominations closed yesterday for the general election. The full list of candidates will take a little while to become publicly known, but it’s safe to say a record number of…
We’ve had the battlebuses, the party political broadcasts, even the photo opportunities with cuddly animals. But we’ve now had well over a week of electioneering and I’ve yet to hear…
I’ve now been running a poll of polls on the blog for over a month, based on a seven-day rolling average of all the latest nationwide polls. Here’s how the ratings…
Time for my latest prediction of the election result – and it’s almost a dead heat: Here’s how that breaks down by party:
The Press Association has published its list of estimated declaration times for the general election. It’s only an approximate timetable, and in some cases the timings from 2010 have been…
Here’s a line graph showing the results of every nationwide poll that has been published since the beginning of last month: The performance of the two main parties is clear. They…
The election campaign is a week old. How are the main party leaders getting on in notching up those all-important visits to key constituencies and marginal seats? First, the prime…
Just a couple of council by-elections this week. One of them, which took place on Wednesday instead of the traditional Thursday, saw the Liberal Democrats gain a seat from the…
Just before Christmas I wrote of how support for Labour and the Tories had reached an all-time low, with their combined share in opinion polls averaging around 64%. I added…
Having been marginally behind the Conservatives halfway through the month, Labour managed to end March back in front. But only just: The gap is too narrow to see on the…