Sentences with word «psephologist»

Britain's leading psephologist John Curtice has already indicated this is now a very strong possibility.

But the leading psephologist Professor John Curtice has predicted Labour could lose between 50 and 100 seats in next month's local elections.

The report has been produced by psephologist Lewis Baston for Westbourne Communications, the lobbying agency led by top Tory operator and former candidate Lord James Bethell.

And top psephologist Professor John Curtice said Labour are in a worse position in the polls than they were last time the same elections were held in 2013.

The respected psephologist John Curtice has calculated that the Tories could gain 71 seats from Labour without winning a higher share of the vote than in 2001, simply by a swing to the Lib Dems splitting the progressive vote in our marginals.

Research conducted by the eminent psephologist, Professor John Curtice, found that middle class people needed more reassurance than their working class compatriots that independence would not have an adverse effect on the country's economy.

Notable psephologists such as John Curtice have highlighted that the Copeland swing was bigger than the suggested uniform national swing, which indicates that a larger than anticipated number of Labour seats could turn Conservative blue based on the current public mood.

Robert Ford was one of the team of psephologists that sent shockwaves around the country at 10 pm on Thursday

A seasoned psephologist and speechwriter, he will bridle at any suggestion that Tory high command should raise his profile because of his interesting back story.

Most psephologists predict that they will lose between 5 and 7 of their seats (out of 57 currently) but this ignores their strong record of localist campaigning and incumbency even after previous boundary changes which have allowed them invariably to buck the electoral trend better than the other two main parties.

11:43 - We've been chatting with Conservative psephologist Rob Hayward on the state of play in Wales, Scotland and London.

He was a Conservative Party Agent for 5 years and has been part of Iain Dale's election night team as a resident psephologist since 2007.

The leading psephologist also suggested a shift left was not to blame for party's election defeat, pointing out that for Scottish voters it was not leftwing enough

John Curtice, the only psephologist to have emerged with an enhanced reputation from the election campaign after his exit poll proved roughly correct, said the election result marked a «fundamental transformation in party competition in the UK», which made the prospect of another majority Labour government unlikely.

Yet it is not really a proportional voting system, and many psephologists think it might actually disadvantage the Lib Dems.

These stats come from psephologist Harris Poll, which earlier this year asked just over 2000 folk aged 18 and up about their e-reading habits.

At a fringe meeting in Brighton today, the respected psephologist John Curtice, of Stathcylde University, told the party it had the best chance in a generation of gaining office.

It was beyond the ability of Margaret Thatcher (in 1983 and 1987) and Tony Blair (2001 and 2005) and as a leading psephologist, John Curtice of Strathclyde University, points out: «Cameron is no Thatcher or Blair.

Polls are now consistently showing a lead for Remain, and psephologists are clear that Labour stands to gain the most from a soft Brexit (or no - Brexit) position.

I watched us beating the Tories by 3 or 4 points on local and European election nights, and poured scorn on the psephologists who said the gains weren't really enough for Labour to hope to win.

Psephologists have been warning for decades now that multi-party politics is on the rise in the UK, but for most of the time they have been ignored.

«Ironically, the Tories need a strong Lib Dem party on a national basis,» the psephologist and former MP Rob Hayward says.

Not that Rob Hayward, the psephologist and former Tory MP, would ever say so.

The psephologist Prof John Curtice has written a blog for What UK Thinks looking at what has happened to the EU referendum polling over the last week.

You do not need to be a psephologist to wonder if Corbyn speaking to Liverpool's students is the electoral equivalent of carrying coals to Newcastle.

But the gain in seats was well behind the 490 identified by the psephologists Michael Thrasher and Colin Rallings as the number required to show that it is a potentially winning force.

By lunchtime, with counting continuing, Labour had gained 153 seats — well short of the 490 gains expected by the psephologists Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher.

More than one psephologist has shown that it is not uncommon for people, when repeatedly asked the same question, to give a positive response the first time, offer a negative one on the second occasion, and then return to a positive position the third time around.