Six principal authority council by-elections this week and, hooray, a full set of Liberal Democrat candidates.

Five Christmas, birthday, wedding, graduation, driving test pass, citizenship acquisition or candidate selection victory gift ideas for that special person you know. (And more tasteful than some ...

Six principal authority council by-elections this week. Five of those had Liberal Democrat candidates, one up on the last time these seats were up. Dodworth (Barnsley) Council By-Election Result:🔶 ...

In the run-up to the general election, I regularly covered why the polls and focus groups gave reason to doubt the electoral wisdom of the Conservative Party’s focus on immigration. Why repeatedly ...

– indicates that party didn’t feature in the polling questions separate from ‘Others’ or that the data is not yet available. Numbers in brackets show change since the previous comparable poll (i.e. by ...

As this new data from Ofcom shows, it’s the dominant app across age and gender. Note too how widespread email is, with just the one email app, Gmail, on its own appearing in the top ten. Politicians ...

New polling from More in Common shows strong support from the public for the recent farmer protests: As More in Common’s Luke Tryl explains: In part that seems to be motivated by the fact that people ...

I usually concentrate on changes in seats in my pieces about local council by-elections, but vote share changes are also useful to help understand what the broader political trends are. Handily, the ...

The Electoral Commission’s report into the 2024 general election and the earlier local elections is now out. It includes some data showing that, once again, it was a fifthteenth century technology ...

Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – new research from Caitlin Milazzo and colleagues about what candidates and parties put ...