Twelve principal authority council by-elections this week and, after last week's blip, a return to winning ways for the Liberal Democrats.

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

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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 ...

Twelve principal authority council by-elections this week and, after last week’s blip, a return to winning ways for the Liberal Democrats. Colin Millichap with David Chadwick. Yscir with Honddu Isaf & ...

A bumper fifteen principal authority council contests this week, including a clutch from Wales caused by councillors getting elected to the Senedd. Let’s start with a Lib Dem win in sad circumstances: ...

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 ...

* 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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...