Archive for General Election
A good reason for Gordon Brown not to have an early general election
I’m pretty sceptical of the chatter about Gordon Brown calling an early general election*. Here’s one the reasons which hasn’t been much talked about.
Imagine we have an early election. Imagine too that Labour manages what is probably the limit of its hopes – largest party in a hung Parliament. (Witness Labour MPs going round telling [...]
General election and local election timetable, 2010
The deadline for registering to vote in a May 6 general election (or the local elections on that day) will be 20 April. If you’re looking for other coverage of election law matters, see the Election Law Channel. With the general election now set for May 6, I’ve updated the following timetable of the key [...]
Follow the yellow brick road? The Liberal Democrats' general election campaign
Here is my chapter from the Total Politics Guide to the 2010 General Election, looking at the prospects for the Liberal Democrats: The 1997 general election turned out to be a once in a generation opportunity for many local Liberal Democrat campaign teams to gain a Parliamentary seat from the Conservatives. At the tail end [...]
Lib Dem Voice publishes exclusive general election prediction
Election forecasting, that is the using data such as party standings, leader ratings and economic indicators to predict the result of the next general election, is still in its infancy. The combination of general elections only every four years or so with the relatively recent innovation of regular detailed polling figures means that there has [...]
Save general election night: MPs sign EDM
A quick follow up on the Save General Election Night campaign: there is now an Early Day Motion (EDM) which MPs can sign to support the campaign. It’s EDM number 2033 and already 126 MPs have signed it. You can lobby your own MP very quickly and easily via www.writetothem.com.
29% of seats have not changed hands since 1945
Cross-posted from The Wardman Wire:
A major part of the point of a democratic electoral system is that those elected to public office can be held to account by the public for their actions. The anger we often see over the behaviour of MPs – whether on matters of policy (such as the Iraq war) or [...]
Saving general election night: round-up of reaction
Crikey, there has been quite a response on this and other sites to the launch this morning of a campaign to save election night. Amongst the posts such as Andrew’s and Jonathan’s agreeing with the campaign there have been a range of queries and criticisms, such as Costigan, Darrell, Mark, Nick and Paul.
The issues people have raised [...]
Save general election night!
Yesterday’s Sunday Times reported how our traditional general election night is under threat from more and more councils wanting to move their count to a Friday.
Although there are some understandable reasons for this (principally the extra logistical burden of new checks against postal vote fraud), overall losing the drama of Thursday night through to the [...]
