There were three principal authority council by-elections this week starting with a tricky Liberal Democrat defence of a seat ...

I spoke at the launch this week of What could future electoral systems ;look like?, an excellent report from Make Votes ...

Liberal Democrats in South West Hertfordshire have chosen campaigner and education champion Matt Sanders to contest at the ...

The sample size on this poll in 518, which falls to an unweighted total of 407 for the headline voting intention. That’s large enough for the significant risks involved in this by-election poll being ...

One of the big problems with Labour’s Representation of the People Bill is the number of loopholes it leaves for big political donations to unduly influence British politics. I’ve talked before about ...

Hawcoat & Newbarns (Westmorland & Furness) Council By-Election Result: ️ RFM: 48.4% (New)🌹 LAB: 24.5% (-9.8)🌳 CON: 19.0% (-21.5)🌍 GRN: 5.1% (New)🔶 LDM: 2.9% (-2.7)No Ind (-19.6) as previous.Reform ...

The latest edition of my email newsletter about work in Parliament, A Lord’s Eye View, is out and you can also read it in full below. But if you’d like to get future editions emailed direct to you as ...

* indicates a figure with slightly different fieldwork dates from the rest of the row. Wording used – BMG: satisfied/dissatisfied, Deltapoll: well/badly, Find Out Now: well/badly, Focaldata: ...

Below is the list of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidates (formally Prospective Parliamentary Candidates, aka PPCs) for the next Westminster general election. If you’d like to help them, a ...

Given how popular (and lengthy!) my list of Reform councillor departures after the May 2025 elections turned out to be, here is a new list, this time for councillors elected under the Reform banner on ...

Each row shows the net gains or losses for that party, broken down by where those gains/losses have come from. Each cell shows the net gains/losses, followed by in brackets the total number of gains ...