Survation, polling for The Sunday Times, has given us the first constituency opinion poll for the Makerfield Parliamentary by ...

That sample size is a little on the low side but constituency polling is tough and it’s large enough to give reasonable confidence that if there is something off with the poll, it isn’t due to the ...

Winning Lib Dem by-election candidate Chris McSweeny. Four principal authority council by-elections this week to kick off the new cycle. Good to see a full slate of Lib Dem candidates, up one on the ...

Read about Andy Burnham. p.1 ...

The Supplementary Vote will be used if there is a by-election for Mayor of Greater Manchester following Andy Burnham's bid to ...

Stockport councillor and former deputy leader of the Labour group, Joe Barratt, has now joined the Liberal Democrats.

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 ...

Claims of fake independent local election candidates have now led to five arrests in Tameside, following a scoop by The Mill.

Here’s the tally of seats changing hands in principal authority council by-elections held between the May 2026 and the May 2027 local elections: Each row shows the net gains or losses for that party, ...

Jake Austin has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Makerfield in the upcoming Parliamentary by-election.

Just one of Rob Kenyon’s many objectionable social media posts. Reform often boasts about how good its candidate vetting is. But even with plenty of examples of its failure already widely known, this ...

There was a treat in the House of Lords this week - two maiden speeches from Liberal Democrat peers, Rhiannon Leaman and Mike ...