Now that the TV debates look on balance more likely to happen than not, I’ve had a go at putting together a timetable for how the election campaign might unfold….

We’ve hit another significant marker in the countdown to polling day. There are now just 100 days to the election. Look out for a cavalcade of articles commenting on the…

Following on from my look at the 10 highest turnouts in the 2010 general election, here are – you’ve guessed it – the 10 lowest turnouts:

Turnout across the whole of the UK at the 2010 general election was 65.1%. This was up almost four percentage points on 2005, but a fair way below the 78.8%…

I’ve already published my selection of seats that I think will best illustrate how well or how badly Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats fare in the election. Now I’m turning…

Three months from today, the first votes in the general election will already have been cast. So says the journalist Michael Crick, and he makes a persuasive case. For even…

I’ve long argued that Nigel Farage will struggle to win the seat of Thanet South. I said as much the moment he announced his intention to stand for Ukip in…

The talk this week of a Green party “surge” has reminded me of when the same word was applied to Ukip last year. In both cases I prefer to use…

Though the boundaries of our parliamentary constituencies are redrawn regularly, there’s enough continuity to allow for the existence of what are known as bellwethers: seats whose result time-and-again mirrors exactly…

Almost exactly half a century ago, a by-election was about to take place whose surprise outcome would shape the politics of Britain for the rest of the decade. From the…