The Swingometer
Rob FordThoughts on elections, public opinion and politics. The Swingometer is named in honour of the late Sir David Butler, inventor of both "swing" and the device to illustrate it on television.
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Gorton and Denton Postmortem
Its less than two weeks since the Greens made history with their first ever by-election victory in Gorton & Denton, yet the result already feels like ancient history. War has returned to the Middle East, and the shockwaves from this new con...
Gorton & Denton Final Update: All To Play For
State of the race: Intriguingly poised
Welcome to my final update on the Gorton and Denton by-election, now just a few days away. The big news since my last post is the publication of two constituency polls from reputable pollsters. I had...
Gorton & Denton update 2: Leaflet wars
Consider the leaflet. A5 fragments of political ephemera, all following the same basic form, yet each with subtle variations making it unique. Electoral snowflakes. And, like snowflakes, predictable changes in the local climate stimulate th...
Waka waka waka
Today we have a special guest post from Philip Cowley, who has got a splendid new book out. He wrote a short piece for the FT recently, looking at how we might deal with defecting MPs, and I liked it so much I asked him if he’d write a long...
Gorton and Denton Update 1
Welcome to all the new readers who have signed up after reading last week’s guide to Gorton and Denton. I’m glad so many of you have found it useful. I have no SoundCloud but…Many of the trends we are seeing here - fragmentation, the rise o...
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Professor of Political Science, and author of "Brexitland", "The British General Election of 2019" and "Sex, Lies and Politics"
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