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

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 ...

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 ...

There is a new Lib Dem councillor in Sheffield, Willis Marshall. Nine principal authority council by-elections this week for ten seats, and a full slate of Lib Dem candidates, up a very welcome four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Yorkshire Post brings the news: The Liberal Democrats have said they are in “pole position” to win the Hull and East Yorkshire mayoral election, as they announced their candidate Coun Mike Ross.