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How many votes did Labour get in 2024?

On election night in 2024, the headlines celebrated a Labour landslide. Crowds cheered, pundits predicted a bold new direction, and the idea of a strong majority government dominated the conversation. But as the confetti settled,...

Posted 25 Sep 2025

Labour won a commanding majority, even though two-thirds did not vote for the party

A System Out of Step – New report on the 2024 General Election

Today we have published our in-depth report on the 2024 General Election, A System Out of Step. The General Election in 2024 was not only the most disproportional election in British electoral history, but one...

Posted 10 Dec 2024

How big donors fund our political parties

In July 2024, at a time when candidates were still fighting for their seats, we reported on donations made to political parties during the first 3 weeks of campaigning for the 2024 general election. Now...

Posted 13 Aug 2024

Over the years the landscape of UK part financing has been shifting.

Four striking general election outcomes showing the chaos of First Past the Post

The dust is settling on the results of the 2024 UK general election. We have a Labour government for the first time since 2010, with a majority of seats almost as big as Tony Blair’s...

Posted 18 Jul 2024

ERS in the Press: General Election edition

Change. That was the driving message of Labour’s successful general election campaign, and change was very much on the agenda for the ERS Comms team (as far as the electoral system goes) as we’ve been...

Posted 11 Jul 2024

Slow progress as women finally make up 40% of Parliament

The 2024 General Election saw in a Labour Government and a brand-new cohort of MPs (335 new MPs) elected; but with all this churn how representative is our House of Commons? Before the election we...

Posted 10 Jul 2024

There have only ever been 693 women MPs - enough to fill the House of Commons once

The only bias in the electoral system should be towards the voters

In the days since the election, I have been touring TV and radio studios making the case for proportional representation and talking about how First Past the Post is failing millions of voters. The fact...

Posted 08 Jul 2024

How the 2024 election could have looked with proportional representation

And the results are out. This election has the biggest difference ever between how we voted and the MPs that now represent us. This was the first election ever where four parties got over 10%...

Posted 05 Jul 2024

First three weeks of donation data show that money is attracted to power

From the dissolution of Parliament through to polling day, political parties are legally required to report any large sums of money they receive in donations. Within the first three weeks of campaigning for the upcoming...

Posted 03 Jul 2024

A vast amount of money has been donated during this general election campaign

It should be a scandal that small changes in the vote result in outsize changes in Parliament

Two, rather similar, articles came out today on the likely impact of small swings in the vote on the results of the general election. In the Times, they identified 130,000 voters in 100 seats that...

Posted 03 Jul 2024