Twenty-three (!) principal authority contests this week, for twenty-four seats, and although it has been a good start to... … ...

* 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: ...

A press release from the Liberal Democrats brings the news: Richard Kilpatrick has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Greater Manchester in the upcoming mayoral election to replace ...

Two new opinion polls for the Makerfield Parliamentary by-election are out, one from Opinium and one from new pollster ...

A bumper fifteen council by-elections this week, including a clutch from Wales caused by councillors getting elected to the ...

A low-key, dull-sounding statement from the Prime Minister about the Cabinet Manual gives a glimpse of what PM Starmer could have been like.

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 ...

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 ...

Read about the selections of Liberal Democrat (prospective) election candidates, particularly for the next Westminster general election. If you know of other Lib Dem selection news which you think ...

Read below my posts about UK political opinion polls and related matters, especially how the different parties are doing in voting intention surveys. You can sign up for my weekly polling newsletter, ...

Welcome to PollBase, my database of national voting intention opinion polls, going back to 1943 and the largest such dataset. It also includes an increasing range of party leader and government ...