May’s local elections – who would have won?
We will never know, of course, but the Conservatives could have been celebrating their best local election results for nearly three decades.
Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher
Measuring electoral volatility
We begin with two questions. First, considering council by-elections since 1983, which year has seen the largest proportion of seats changing hands – in other words, the greatest electoral volatility? …
Local party successes
Labour’s newly elected Councillor Gurdev Singh Hayre will probably be the last to succeed in a council by-election for quite some time.