Can you raise electoral registration with social media ads?
Researchers have tested out when rates of electoral registration can be increased by running social media adverts. … Read the full post »
Turnout
Find out about turnout in elections: what it has been like, what causes it to change and how campaigners try to raise it.
Early voting pilots show why other reforms should be piloted in future
As I’d predicted, the early voting pilot in this May’s elections in Wales has turned out to be a bit of a dud. … Read the full post »
Text messages raise turnout… if they are from the local council
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – whether text messaging can raise electoral registration and turnout. … Read the full post »
Early voting pilot for May’s Welsh local elections
Back in the years of New Labour, the government ran an extensive set of pilots to see what might raise turnout in elections. … Read the full post »
How digital advertising can swing votes and raise turnout
There’s an excellent discussion of the impact of political adverts in the US which also acts as a clear overview of what political advertising is about and how it’s done. … Read the full post »
Want to raise turnout? Put on a party at the polling station
Australia has a lovely tradition of putting on mini-summer fairs at polling stations, as I discussed with an Australian political expert for Never Mind The Bar Charts. … 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 »
Online voting didn’t boost turnout in NHS elections
The turnout effect of e-voting – perhaps the key measure of interest to political reformers – appears to be marginal. … Read the full post »
Turnout: even more reason to join the Campaign for Democratic Optimism
Opening the Can of Worms: Most Existing Studies of Aggregate Level Turnout are Meaningless, by Jonathan Mellon (University of Manchester/Nuffield College, Oxford), Geoffrey Evans (Nuffield College, Oxford), Edward Fieldhouse (University of Manchester), Jane Green (University of Manchester) and Christopher Prosser (University of Manchester/Nuffield College, Oxford). … Read the full post »
What the evidence says: did 38 Degrees really find a way to boost turnout at elections?
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – how did the efforts of 38 Degrees to raise turnout at the general election fare? … Read the full post »