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Shouldn’t MPs win or lose their seats based on voters changing their minds

Changing boundaries shouldn’t change election results

For the past 30 years, political scientists Colin Rallings and...

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Liz Truss appointed one peer for every 1.5 days she served as Prime Minister

The UK’s shortest serving PM hands out peerages...

In the days between Christmas and New Year, the government...

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Around 400 seats will see very little, if any, local campaigning from either of the two major UK parties

The Non-Battleground Election: Millions of voters are ignored

Last week, the Labour Party started the process of selecting...

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2023 most read

The top 5 most-read ERS articles from 2023

Every year we have a look through the stats to...

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Only one-in-four think it is OK to hand out peerages in order to parachute people into cabinet

Fewer than one-in-four support prime ministers handing out...

Our recent polling, covered by the Daily Mirror, has found...

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14,000 voters were turned away - was voter ID worth it?

Government report can’t say if voter ID made...

The government has published its evaluation of the Elections Act...

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Powys and Gwynedd Councils have both voted YES to a public consultation on First Past the Post

Powys and Gwynedd lead the way for Welsh...

There was fantastic news for voters coming out of Powys...

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Governments often seem wholly incapable of delivering on their objectives

Strong government vs good government? First Past the...

Government failures are always in the news, but we rarely...

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The spending cap for each party has been raised by 80 percent from 19m to about 35m

New political funding rules sneak in

When people are asked about the problems with money in...

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Voters do care about women’s leadership in elected office

Voters prefer decisions made by panels balanced between...

Men still dominate political decision-making in the United Kingdom. Women...

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However long David Cameron serves, he will be able to sit in the House of Lords for life

David Cameron’s seat at the cabinet table means...

David Cameron was appointed as Foreign Secretary this week –...

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We want every council in Wales to scrap First Past the Post

One year to win local proportional representation in...

A year from today, November 15, 2024, is the last...

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