Electoral Commission wins court case against Labour Party
The London County Court has rejected the Labour Party’s appeal against being fined for failing to keep to election law. … Read the full post »
Read about the 2014 European Parliament Election, held on the same day as the delayed annual round of local elections.
The London County Court has rejected the Labour Party’s appeal against being fined for failing to keep to election law. … Read the full post »
The Electoral Commission has cut the pay of the Tower Hamlets Returning Officer by 12.5% after mistakes made at the 2014 elections. … Read the full post »
1% is a low figure but it is also just over a doubling of the figure from the 2012 Police and Crime Commission elections. … Read the full post »
The Electoral Commission’s report into the May 2014 elections is fairly low-key, but in amongst the modest changes floated based on the lessons of this year are a couple of welcome details – and one misplaced idea. … Read the full post »
One thing the Liberal Democrats weren’t short of during the European election campaign was media coverage of the party’s European policies. But one thing the party ended up short of was votes. … Read the full post »
Ex-Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott may have earned a footnote in the history books for a spectacularly self-destructive plot against Nick Clegg that simply resulted in his own exit from the party. … Read the full post »
A welcome change in tone from Nick Clegg in his new video to party members, acknowledging explicitly that many people who worked hard still lost. … Read the full post »
During the 2014 European elections the Lib Dems sounded too much like the party of the status quo rather than of reform. … Read the full post »
On any conventional measure of elections, UKIP is the big winner from Thursday’s European Parliament elections. Well not quite. … Read the full post »
They say that the prospect of execution concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you believed the article in The Guardian this morning… … Read the full post »