There has been much coverage in recent days of the outcome of the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, which lies in eastern ...

August is a month of long summer holidays for both schoolchildren and parliamentarians. However, it did not feel like ...

Coverage of elections down in England can often give the impression that results which are wildly different from the way people vote is just a fact of nature, or at most a strange quirk of the voting ...

On Thursday 7th May, Wales headed to the polls for the Senedd election. This was an election that delivered seismic change for Wales; seeing Welsh Labour lose their position as the largest party in ...

Whatever happens in May, the next Senedd election is set to be historic. For instance, recent polling has pointed to the chance that Labour might not be the largest party in the Senedd for the first ...

If there were a general election tomorrow, who would form the next government? It sounds like a simple question if you have access to the latest polls. But when the latest YouGov poll, released on 28 ...

A new YouGov MRP poll, published on 26 September 2025, provides another snapshot of the chaotic democratic outcomes being caused by First Past The Post (FPTP) in our era of multi-party politics. The ...

This week, a new report from Spotlight on Corruption highlighted the impact of Electoral Commission independence to the UK’s democratic standing. The report lays bare just how far the UK has slipped ...

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.

Since the first elected mayors were created in 2000, and then PCCs in 2012, the elections were held under SV, which gives voters a first and second preference vote. Under the system, if no candidate ...

We have hit a significant milestone in our campaign to reform the House of Lords: over a quarter of a million people have now signed our petition calling for the second chamber of our Parliament to be ...

The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) has, this week, published the latest findings from their British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey. The survey has been conducted almost every year since ...