This time last year I was able to talk about the electoral state of Plaid Cymru in fairly positive terms. In the past few months the party had regained its status as the second party in the National Assembly, and had won two of the four PCC elections in Wales; during the post-election period, Plaid Read more
TED talks are one of the phenomena of the modern age. By getting experts to convey a single important idea or research finding in a short, accessible talk, they have attracted huge audiences. I’m a great fan of them myself, and have learned huge amounts from watching many TED talks. I am very pleased to Read more
Since the general election concluded, a lot has happened in UK politics. That’s all given me a lot to contemplate. It has led to an exciting new project – a new book entitled The End of British Party Politics? Though I’ve written several academic books this will be my first non-academic book: that is, it is Read more
Let’s start with the good news, shall we? This year’s general election saw the Conservatives in Wales achieve some historic success. Back in June the Tories increased their share of the vote in Wales by 6.3 percentage points over their already rather good performance in 2015. The Welsh Conservative vote share, at 33.6%, equalled their Read more
Blog readers may be interested to know that I have a new website up and running: www.rogerscully.com. I’ll be using this new site to collect together all information about my professional life – including posting new blog posts. Please explore my new site. As a little incentive to encourage you to do so, I’ve put Read more
The Labour party’s resurgence has taken them up to fifty percent support in Wales. This is the standout finding from the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll, the first systematic test of public attitudes and voting intentions since last June’s general election. Our new poll explored voting intentions for both Westminster and the National Assembly. These Read more
Today’s blog post is a guest article by my Wales Governance Centre colleague Dr Einion Dafydd. You can find Einion on Twitter (@EinionDafydd). Devolved institutions in Wales were established to improve representation and to strengthen accountability. Labour won a majority of seats in Wales at every general election during the years 1922–97, yet the Read more
Following the tradition invented on this blog over the last four years, I’m going to use this period – as summer holidays end and we begin a new political year – to reflect on the electoral standing and performance of the main political parties in Wales. As always in Wales, we begin with Labour. The Read more
As you may have noticed, the blog has been rather quiet over the weeks since the general election. Well, even us psephologists need to re-charge our batteries now and then – and perhaps particularly after an unexpected general election… Anyway, the next few weeks will likely continue to be fairly quiet. I’ll be having some Read more
On the morning of 5th July, the Wales Governance Centre (@WalesGovernance) organised an analysis seminar on the 2017 general election. The seminar was chaired with much aplomb by Catrin Haf Jones of ITV Cymru-Wales (@CatrinPenlan) – diolch yn fawr iawn iddi hi! It featured a presentation by me, and then a Q&A session with my Read more
