The Labour party has hired a Bolton - based betting expert to be
its general election data guru after a bidding war with Ukip.
Not exact matches
But before the
general election, the Trump campaign dropped Cambridge Analytica for the Republican National Committee
data, reportedly never using any of the «psychographic» information.
Cambridge Analytica has filed insolvency proceedings just weeks after it was embroiled at the center of a political scandal involving Facebook's
data protection policies, the 2016 US
general election of President Trump and the ethics of online advertising.
The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian
General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral
Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated
data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian
election had it been run under different electoral
election had it been run under different electoral systems.
Data shows that 87.3 % of the electorate voted in the Scottish referendum compared with little more than 60 % in recent
general elections.
[14] It should be noted that as the
data analysed here is from the year leading up to the 2015
general election, it is likely that the effect is particularly pronounced during this time.
Using the same
data a logit regression model improves the predictive power of local
elections to tell us who will win the most votes at the next
general election, making correct predictions 86.21 % of the time.
For federal
elections,
data - driven campaigns get two
data points on voting behavior every two years: whether someone voted in a primary (and which one) and whether they voted in the
general election.
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 e
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 electionelection.
More than half of people (57.6 %) intending to vote for UKIP in the May 2014 European Parliament
election also intend to vote for UKIP in the 2015
general election, whereas the same proportion, those who intended to vote UKIP in the 2009 European
election and who intended to vote UKIP in the 2010 UK
general election, (using 2009 BES panel
data) was less than half that number (25.5 %) in 2009.
While the
data pertain to the period immediately prior to the
election campaign, longitudinal analyses and other polling
data suggest that the results are still relevant at the time of the
general election.
Data from British
Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament
elections to
general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament
elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for
general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.
Organizing 2.0: Last season, I heard that the DCCC was placing interns who had tech /
data skills into campaigns in the summer before the
general election.
Bringing the
data together, our poll therefore shows that smart leadership communications could win the
General Election.
Since the model uses
data from every
general elections since 1945, it can only work for parties that have been on the national scene since then.
This prediction takes account of both recent YouGov polling
data and the lessons from history about how public opinion moves in the final weeks before
general elections.
However, I would expect UKIP's support at a
general election to fall back below 10 %, and to revert to its core - vote profile along the lines of the above
data.
In the light of this vast difference between euro -
election and
general election performance, we have not yet been persuaded that we would produce more accurate
data were we to move UKIP to the main party list when asking our daily voting question.
«So when they only used the 2013 primary
election in their sampling, and then all the rest of their
data was based upon four
general elections after that, I said to them, «Your information is skewed.»
Andy Williamson writes that while the 2015
General Election was not an internet election, it was an election where both data and social tools m
Election was not an internet
election, it was an election where both data and social tools m
election, it was an
election where both data and social tools m
election where both
data and social tools mattered.
This dataset provides an updated (version 2.21) file containing the 2015
General Election results by constituency linked to candidate and census
data.
With such a wide
data base, the disparate surveys strongly suggest that Thursday's leaders» debate was a game - changing event which could impact the result of the
general election, probably by taking enough votes from the Tories to secure a hung parliament.
The deputy minister added that the three South Africans were found to have been in possession of a dossier on STL, a firm involved in the electronic transmission of
data to the Electoral Commission (EC) in the 2012
general elections.
The
data suggests that many older voters will switch away from the eurosceptic party in 2015 with less than three quarters of Ukip voters in the 2014 European
elections saying they could see themselves doing the same in a
General Election.
A major investor in Wonga, a banker and two billionaire hedge fund managers head a list of Conservative donors in the final set of
election watchdog
data released before Thursday's
general election.
By March 2015 almost 90 % of yes voters intended to vote SNP, in increasing slightly to just over 90 % at the
General Election, a finding confirmed by
data from the nationally representative BES post-
election probability sample survey.
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Data for these polls are generally gathered at the same time as the data for General Election poll
Data for these polls are generally gathered at the same time as the
data for General Election poll
data for
General Election polling.
As revealed on this website,
data from the latest wave of the British
Election Study (collected in February / March 2014) suggests that loyalty to UKIP between the 2014 European Parliament elections and the 2015 general election is likely to be around 60 % (a much larger figure than between the last European Parliament and general election in 2009 and 2010 respec
Election Study (collected in February / March 2014) suggests that loyalty to UKIP between the 2014 European Parliament
elections and the 2015
general election is likely to be around 60 % (a much larger figure than between the last European Parliament and general election in 2009 and 2010 respec
election is likely to be around 60 % (a much larger figure than between the last European Parliament and
general election in 2009 and 2010 respec
election in 2009 and 2010 respectively).
L - R: Deputy Director, Training, Mr Ifenayi Agoha, Los Angeles County's Chief
Election Official, Dean Logan, External Member, The Electoral Institute (TEI), Dr Kole Shettima, Acting Director
General, TEI, Dr Sa'ad Idris, Lead Facilitator, Conny McCormack, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Prince Adedeji Soyebi and Deputy Director, Research and Documentation, Mr Emeka Nwachukwu take time off for a group photo at a professional training in
Elections, Electoral
Data Management, Storage and Analysis, which began on 14th December in California, United States.
Academics at Essex University have analysed the 2010
general election results together with survey
data on voters» second and third preferences, and estimated that the Lib Dems would have gained an extra 32 seats under AV.
Why a political party in Northern Ireland decided to spend more than half its budget for the 2015
general election with an unheard of
data analytics company in Canada is not clear.
At the time, the WFP was under investigation by the US attorney's office in connection with work done by its now defunct for - profit arm,
Data & Field Services, in the 2009
election cycle, and then - state Attorney
General Cuomo was running for governor on a platform that included an anti-corruption plank.
Top Trump campaign officials, meanwhile, played down the work of the
data - science company, which was paid at least $ 6 million to do voter modeling and ad buys for Trump in the 2016
general election.
According to the report, STL which was contracted by the EC to assist in the management of the biometric database used for the 2012
general elections, still controls the sensitive
data.
Not all of the
data is publicly available, as issue - based ads that ask voters to call their senator and encourage them to support or oppose policy is not considered political spending outside of a 60 - day window before a
general election and 30 days before a primary, and is therefore not required to be reported to the FEC.
General election results were taken from the BBC and opinion poll
data was obtained from UK Polling Report.
Drawing on
data from Labour's time in opposition during these periods it is possible to see how well it has polled since the
general election last May.
The recent Marist College poll showed Paterson badly trailing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in a hypothetical
general election matchup but the
data inside the poll was even more troubling for Paterson.
Political parties are using the online giant's wealth of
data on its users to send precisely targeted adverts that they hope will swing this week's
general election.
Investigators at the Stanford Graduate School of Business analyzed
data from Arizona's 2000
general election, looking for a link between where voters cast their ballots and whether they backed a school - funding initiative.
Data released by the government on the day it called the
general election shows that eight of the 18 schools sponsored by grammar schools that have been inspected by Ofsted are rated as requires improvement, while two are inadequate.
The crucial decision was made in late September or early October when Mr. Trump's son - in - law Jared Kushner and Brad Parscale, Mr. Trump's digital guru on the 2016 campaign, decided to utilize just the RNC
data for the
general election and used nothing from that point from Cambridge Analytica or any other
data vendor.
Cambridge Analytica, a
data vendor for the Trump campaign, was phased out during the
general election, CBS News reports.
The attorneys
general in New York and Massachusetts are demanding that Facebook hand over information regarding the alleged misuse of
data culled from millions of users by a third party in an effort to influence the presidential
election.
Trump's campaign reportedly used the firm's
data during the primaries but not during the
general election.
Cambridge Analytica may not even have used the
data it inappropriately siphoned from Facebook during the
general election.
Denying the charges, the Congress party claimed that the BJP and JD (U) had used
data firms affiliated to Cambridge Analytica during the 2014
general elections.
The report has prompted a stern response from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is wary over the possible exploitation of
data analytics by global firms during the upcoming
General Elections.
David stood as a candidate for the Internet Party at the last
general election in his home of New Zealand for the principles on which the internet was founded, principles of freedom, fairness, openness for all - advocating transparent governance,
data - driven policy, a surveillance - free society and much WOW which decentralised tech will enable.
The Congress, denying Prasad's allegations, claimed the BJP and the JD (U), its ally in Bihar, had colluded with the
data firm in
elections, including the General Elections
elections, including the
General ElectionsElections in 2014.