Even if Gordon Brown calls the general election for Thursday 6 May, the date on which local elections are also due to be held, that won’t be the only round of elections this spring. That’s because the holding of the general election on the same day as local elections means any contested parish and community elections

Forget a March election. At least that's what Iain Dale thinks, along with the BBC's Nick Robinson and George Osborne's advisers. I was out with some friends tonight and the this subject came up. I have thought for some time the most likely month for a general election is April. The turnout at a general election is always higher than at local elections. With this in mind, Labour wou...

As expected the media have gone into a frenzy over Labour's dismal performance in the EU elections with many people suggesting that this could translate into a whitewash in a General Election. I'm still not convinced. First of all, the "constituencies" and the method of voting in these elections are nothing like those at a General Election meaning that it is all but impossible to draw co...

For a long time, since John Major defeated Neil Kinnock against the expectation of the polls, I have had a theory about the last few days of a general election campaign. I call it the sobering up period. General elections allow national debates to happen in a way that is impossible at any other time of year. Outside general elections debates take place as bombardments from fixed positions, each si...

There are two articles on Fruit and Votes on the forthcoming Indian Lok Sabha elections. The next Indian general elections - the largest electoral undertaking ever - will take place between 16th April and 13th May 2009. The election will mainly be between a bloc comprising Congress and its allies [who are currently in government] and their opponents. Given the fact that the elections are held unde...

Dizzy makes the very good point that, once all those MPs' expenses claim documentation is published, will the consequence be so many resignations from seats that a large number of by-elections would become necessary?In such a scenario, he further postulates, would this in practice compel the Prime Minister to call the long-awaited General Election in (say) this coming autumn? There comes a point

Election forecasting, that is the using data such as party standings, leader ratings and economic indicators to predict the result of the next general election, is still in its infancy. The combination of general elections only every four years or so with the relatively recent innovation of regular detailed polling figures means that there has

Unless Brown calls a snap election in the next month or so, we’ll have a General Election by June of next year whether we like it or not. Personally, I couldn’t care less. Like the famous South Park episode, this election will offer the tempting choice between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. Now I know

I was having a look at data from previous elections recently with a particular focus on the number of seats and percentage of votes gained by the third party in the last few decades. The first thing that is clear and which I already knew is that in the last three general elections, the Lib Dems

The Israeli local elections have taken place and PoliticalBetting.com looks at them as a possible pointer to the results of their general election next year . Likud seems to have gained at the expense of both Kadima and Labour. Furthermore, Shas and United Torah Judaism look likely to ally with Likud so, even if Likud don't do as well as they might in the general election, it would be virtually im...