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March 30, 2015

London could swing in a different direction to the rest of south-east England

Ever since Labour did better than expected in London in last year’s local elections, there’s been a sense that come the general election the party will benefit from a higher swing…

March 20, 2015

DUP-UU election pact: what could happen?

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….

March 12, 2015

Why Wales could end up behaving more like England than Scotland

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…

January 16, 2015

The decline of the Merseyside Tory

If Esther McVey loses her seat of Wirral West on 7 May, the Conservatives will have been wiped out across the whole of Merseyside. It would be the final act…

January 06, 2015

The UK electoral map: which regions and counties will decide the result?

I’ve spent the last few months on this blog touring the electoral map to size up the parties’ chances in every region of the UK. Now that I’ve completed my…

December 28, 2014

Southern England: Labour’s toehold

I’m completing my tour of the electoral map near where I began: in southern England. The three counties of Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Wiltshire are almost solid blocks of blue. But…

December 22, 2014

South-east England: the Tories’ blue wedge

Labour has been driven out of various parts of the country over the past decade, but none more comprehensively than in south-east England. The 2010 election left not a single Labour MP…

December 12, 2014

The Home Counties: a true blue heartland

For the next stage of my tour of the electoral map, I’ve grouped together five counties that don’t fit neatly into the traditional regions of the UK, but which all…

December 03, 2014

North-west England: Labour’s top target

The counties of Cheshire, Cumbria and Lancashire hold the greatest concentration of Labour targets in the country. Outside of Merseyside and Greater Manchester, north-west England offers the best chance for…

November 27, 2014

The West Midlands continued

I’ve already looked at the state of play within the county of West Midlands, where Labour has a solid wedge of seats that won’t alter very much come polling day….

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