The Elections Centre

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7 May 2026

What happens at a count on election night?

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6 May 2026

2026 Local elections: Where might Labour do well?

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4 May 2026

2026 Local elections: Why Labour are weaker even where they’re strongest

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30 April 2026

2026 Local elections preview: Merseyside

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27 April 2026

2026 Local elections preview: Yorkshire

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23 April 2026

2026 Local elections preview: Greater Manchester (part two)

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21 April 2026

2026 Local elections preview: Greater Manchester (part one)

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15 April 2026

A bumper year for local elections: more candidates, longer ballots, and worsening gender representation in 2026

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10 April 2026

2026 Local elections preview: Tyne and Wear

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7 April 2026

2026 Local elections preview: West Midlands

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31 March 2026

2026 Local elections preview: London

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27 January 2026

A review of council by-elections in 2025: Records broken as party competition intensifies

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12 December 2025

Rumours about replacing Keir Starmer overlook several important polling details

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3 May 2025

UK local elections delivered record-breaking fragmentation of the vote

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15 July 2024

UK general election tests limits of first-past-the-post system

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29 June 2024

Election campaign trails: How party leaders are upping the ante as poll day looms

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23 June 2024

Tracking the election campaigns: The seats where polling results have got worse despite leader visits

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21 June 2024

Why we might be heading for the lowest turnout general election since universal suffrage

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20 June 2024

General Election 2024 — More candidates than ever before

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20 June 2024

The Elections Centre Constituency Spotlights 2024: Altrincham & Sale West

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18 June 2024

The Elections Centre Constituency Spotlights 2024: Great Grimsby & Cleethorpes

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15 June 2024

General election campaign midpoint: Lonely Sunak fights battle on three fronts

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13 June 2024

The Elections Centre Constituency Spotlights 2024: Bristol Central

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11 June 2024

The Elections Centre Constituency Spotlights 2024: Plymouth Moor View

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11 June 2024

Tracking the election campaigns: South of England emerges as a major battleground

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11 June 2024

Rishi Sunak’s campaign route suggests a defensive approach to fight off Labour and Lib Dems

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11 June 2024

Boundary changes: How the electoral impact of the new political battlegrounds are calculated

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