How political party support varies by age
New analysis from the British Election Study shows the age breakdown of party support. It’s notable how flat Lib Dem support is… … Read the full post »
British Election Study
Read about the detailed research programme into British elections, the British Election Study.
PODCAST – Will British politics become less volatile, and how important is ideology?
Professor Jane Green is co-director of the British Election Study, which is to British elections what Wisden is to cricket or Oxford is to dictionaries. … Read the full post »
What do the academics say? Contacting voters, especially in person, works
Welcome to another in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. This time, it is a look back at the work of David Cutts, Ed Fieldhouse, Justin Fisher, Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie with data from the 2010 British Election Study on the impact of contacting voters. … Read the full post »
Sharp drop in the number of people thinking there are too many immigrants in UK
As Matt Singh has pointed out, the latest British Election Study shows a major drop in the number of people thinking there are too many immigrants in the country. … Read the full post »
Political views of Twitter users do not match the wider population, but that matters less than you might think
Matt Singh has spotted and graphed data from the latest British Election Study release showing the gap between the political views of Twitter users in the UK and those of the rest of the population. … Read the full post »
The myth of youth turnout at the 2017 general election
Out today is the latest data from the British Election Survey (BES), focusing on turnout. It was up at the 2017 general election, making it the fourth general election in a row at which turnout has risen. But it wasn’t young people who fuelled the turnout rise. … Read the full post »
No, the electorate wasn’t unusually volatile in 2017
A further snippet from the latest set of British Election Study data: 19% of voters changed their mind on how they would vote between the start and the end of the campaign. … Read the full post »
Brexit was the top issue for voters at the 2017 general election
The latest data from the British Election Study – the ‘gold-standard’ set of research for each general election – shows that Brexit was top of voters’ concerns ahead of the election. … Read the full post »
The danger in the latest British Election Study data
The danger with the latest update to the British Election Study dataset is that it tempts political scientists into using data that misleads. … Read the full post »
What mattered most to voters in the European referendum
Three very striking word clouds from the ‘gold standard’ British Election Study which asked people who were voted Remain, Leave and undecided an open-ended question about what mattered most to them when deciding how to vote … Read the full post »