Sentences with phrase «british elections»

The media, eager for a new story after years of Tory failure and with an increasingly unpopular Labour government, gave him the glowing coverage he craved, helping him to «decontaminate» the Tory brand and move the party back towards the centre ground, where, the conventional wisdom has it, British elections are won and lost.

Adam Fleming took the mood box - an unscientific test with plastic balls - to see if people thought such an approach should be introduced in British elections.

Just as Brittania seemed to be ruling the waves as strong as ever, having rejected both Europe and Scotland, it is pulled apart in the British elections.

What to make of Mr Cowell's generous offer to bring a touch of the X Factor to British elections?

He is viewed by many as the inspiration for the subsequent study of British elections.

Could the political success of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the aftermath of the 2014 European elections undermine Tory success in the 2015 British elections?

Sir Eric Pickles, the Government's Anti-Corruption Champion, has reviewed electoral fraud to make recommendations on what could be done to tackle the problem.Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, has claimed that electoral fraud is a «growing phenomena» in British elections.

If they can vote in Scottish elections, the Welsh Assembly will follow suit (although perhaps not so the Northern Ireland Assembly), and, with many Labour MPs already supporting the concept, Parliament will have to reduce the voting age to 16 for there to be any conherence in British elections.

The problems highlighted may not be particularly surprising to long - standing observers of British elections.

For all the criticism of him, Galloway shows young people and minorities can upset British elections.

It is sometimes claimed about Nigel Farage — and by Nigel Farage — that UKIP is particularly successful in winning votes from people who have become disengaged from participating in British elections.

Predicting electoral outcomes is a precarious game, and as the sage of American electoral prediction, Nate Silver, will tell you, this is especially true for British elections.

This is a major change in British elections and it is one that looks as though it is here to stay.

The system is widely open to fraud and there is an ethnic element to British elections which we've never seen before.»

«And I haven't heard of anyone contesting the validity of British elections...» - Ahem.

For those of you who have never bothered to familiarise yourself with the mechanics of British elections, a quick primer.

The passage of the Reform Bill may be defined in a shorthand way as the procedure of voting by Parliament, and approval by King William IV, of a law changing the qualifications for voting in British elections and redistributing seats in the House of Commons.

For instance, Elie Halevy and other historians assumed that the revolutionary events in France during July and August, 1830, must have influenced the outcome of the British elections.

If polls could not get the British election right, I doubt that they can get this one right.

The Labour party was undone in the recent British election by a combination of Scottish nationalism, concerns about immigration, and opposition to EU integration — each a version of identity politics.

This is reinforced by time series data from the British Election Survey showing the proportion of strong party identifiers, and the contrast over time is striking - «very strong» party identification plummeted from around 50 % in the mid-1960s to the mid-teens by 2001.

The current British Election Study has collected data from about 4,000 Scots on a variety of political issues — one of which is Scottish independence — and also includes a large amount of background information, including each respondent's placement on the «Big Five» personality dimensions.

Over the last 18 months I have been working with Dr Ben Clements of the University of Leicester, going through years of data from the British Election Study, British Social Attitudes and other smaller sources to try to answer that question.

Second, we have assumed that within each local authority the variation in turnout between different demographic groups will be the same as that which pertained in last year's general election across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general election).

The overwhelming majority of «no» voters who voted Labour in 2010 also voted Labour in 2015, as the British Election Study shows.

Chris Prosser is a political scientist based at the University of Manchester, where he is a Research Associate on the British Election Study.

As Chris Hanretty explained last week, the British Election Study shows that Labour support is weakening and Conservative support strengthening in Labour's own seats relative to other seats - in other words, the Tories are disproportionately gaining ground, and Labour losing ground, where it hurts Labour most.

Sorry, but it seems like the British Election Study data are just data from their studies (surveys and such), rather than the results of the elections.

Electoral data relating to analysis of election results between 1964 -2010 and 2015 can also be downloaded from the British Election Study Website here.

We manually coded all British Election Study face - to - face...

The British Election Study survey evidence suggests that Scottish Labour MPs will not be saved by incumbency effects or tactical voting, so the party will primarily need to attract a significant number of their former voters back from the SNP.

The British Election Study is pleased to announce the release of the seventh wave of our Internet Panel survey.

The British Election Study is working with ITV to bring in - depth analysis and understanding of the most unpredictable election in living memory.

The British Election Study 2017 is managed via a consortium of the University of Manchester, the University of Oxford, and the University of Nottingham.

The British Election Study is pleased to announce the release of the wave 10 of our Internet Panel survey.

New British Election Study data gathered at approximately the same time that the Green membership surge started in the autumn of 2014 includes a decent sample of more than 1,000 voters claiming that they intend to support the Greens in the forthcoming general election.

Evidence from British Election Study Internet Panel Wave One conducted in Feb / March 2014 There is a bit of a clash between different explanations of the particularly low level of participation in European Parliament elections.

Of the September / October 2014 British Election Study (BES) respondents who voted Liberal Democrat in 2010 and still intend to vote Lib Dem, just 14 % strongly agree that, «government should redistribute income from the better off to those who are less well off», compared with 31 % for those that have switched to Labour.

The British Election Study Team is comprised of Ed Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoff Evans, Hermann Schmitt, Cees van der Eijk, Jon Mellon and Chris Prosser.

Newly released data from the British Election Study reveal that such comforts may now be misplaced.

(British Election Study 2014; N = 20,850)

In the meantime, Chris Hanretty has an important piece here about how the latest British Election Study data tell us that the Tories are doing particularly well in Labour seats.

The British Election Study analysis shown here, and much more, is live on ITV throughout the night.

On the 7th May 2014, Professor Jane Green of the British Election Study team took part in a Political Studies Association media briefing in Westminster, London.

«Studying how the economy shapes voting using new «big data» and the British Election Study» This is a CASE award in conjunction with the...

The British Election Study has provided an unparalleled source of election data and analysis since it began in 1964.

A British Election Study team led by The University of Nottingham's Professor Cees...

For comparability, we have also calculated these weights for the 2015 British Election Study face - to - face.

We are pleased to release new British Election Study insights into the Brexit vote.

Using the British Election Study to Understand the Great Polling Miss Competing explanations have been put forward for the large polling errors on May 7th.