The Electoral Commission has published the latest donation and borrowing figures for the political parties this week, and LDV’s own Mark Pack has already blogged his success in getting the Commission to report the figures accurately. The Commission’s website does allow us, though, to gain a picture of the Lib Dems’ fundraising efforts over the years.

The Commission has published its annual report for 2008. Like last year, there's a special web page devoted to it which you can access here. The annual report is a rich source of information about what is going on in...

The Commission as recently made public its report on transparency in 2007. You can download the document - COM (2008) 630 final - here. The report is a valuable overview of all the activities of the Commission in the field...

The Electoral Commission Bureaucrats have been beavering away with their great recommendations for electoral change, however, as you would expect from a Bureaucratic monolith the emphasis for change is being driven by the "paperwork" rather than the need to overhaul the joke that has become our electoral system. The key findings of the Electoral Commission relate largely to the need...

Mr. Steven Opoku-Mensah, Western Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) said the Commission will not hesitate to dismiss any polling assistant found to have taken sides with any political party.

The latest figures from the Electoral Commission for donations to political parties and borrowing by parties are out today. It includes the claim that, “As at 30 September 2008, total borrowing stood at just over £31 million.” As is now traditional, the Electoral Commission is in fact misreporting its own figures. As I wrote last time: You will

Good news all in all for both the Electoral Commission and for the laws regulating donations to political parties with the decision today by an Appeal Court to overturn a previous strange ruling by a magistrate in the case of a series of donations to UKIP that the Electoral Commission had investigated and decided broke

Last week, the Electoral Commission published its report into the administration of the May's AV referendum. Despite the high political temperatures during the campaign, the administration got little criticism at the time and so the report rightly reflects that. However, amongst the details are some important pointers to issues that are likely to come up at future elections.

The gas crisis exposed the vulnerability of the European Union to outside disturbances and lack of interconnection in the energy area. What is the EC Commission doing to tackle the problems? *** The Commission’s Legislative and Work Programme 2009, Acting now for a better Europe (Brussels, 5.11.2008 COM(2008) 712 final), deals with Climate Change and Sustainable Europe as the second priority...

Yesterday saw the publication by the Electoral Commission of the latest donation and borrowing figures for political parties. Their press release states: As at 30 June 2008, total borrowing [by political parties] stood at just over £33.1 million One problem though. This figure is wrong. For if you go all the way through the press release to the detailed