Canvassing is different this year: voters don’t care enough to be angry
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 »
Read about the 2014 local elections, held on 22 May rather than on the first Thursday in May in order to coincide with that year’s European Parliament elections.
For a full data series of the annual local election results, see my LocalBase.
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 »
The story of the last few decades isn’t just about the rise of the online world. It’s also about the increasing problems with traditional ways of communicating with voters. … Read the full post »
A gem of an election bar chart from the Dudley Conservative Party campaign. … Read the full post »
A Conservative candidate in the upcoming Brentwood Borough Council elections has resigned over anti-Islamic and homophobic Tweets. … Read the full post »
Harrow Labour have suspended one of their candidates for the upcoming council elections after it emerged he was a self-confessed fraudster. … Read the full post »
A sign of just how much the Conservatives are still struggling in many urban areas comes with the list of candidates for Islington Council. … Read the full post »
There is a claim that the Electoral Commission has missed off a key piece of information from nomination paperwork. But has it? … Read the full post »
A landlord whose property was illegally converted into ‘cramped and substandard’ flats, according to a council report, is a Labour candidate. … Read the full post »
Nearly half of the Labour run councils in England are increasing Council Tax this April. … Read the full post »
Courtesy of the Electoral Commision comes a reminder of the changes to electoral law coming into force for May’s elections. Note in particular the second point, a welcome and sensible move to reduce postal vote fraud. … Read the full post »