By-elections to the National Assembly

Posted on 29 July 2013 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Westminster by-elections have long been a colourful part of the British political scene. They attract some temporary national media coverage to the political peculiarities of a particular constituency, which gets lavished with a degree of attention from the parties and media that it will rarely if ever experience again. By-elections also tend to witness some
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By-Election Week in Wales

Posted on 26 July 2013 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

While much of Europe is sensibly going off on its holidays, here in Wales (well, bits of it, anyway) next week is by-election week. First, and most obviously, we have the Ynys Mon by-election for the National Assembly seat recently vacated by Ieuan Wyn Jones, the former Plaid Cymru leader. The full list of the
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YouGov Poll: The Party Leaders

Posted on 25 July 2013 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Another set of questions that we were able to include in the poll run by YouGov recently was about the party leaders. The question asked was the following: “Using a scale that runs from 0 to 10, where 0 means strongly dislike and 10 means strongly like, how do you feel about…” applied to all
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New Poll!

Posted on 23 July 2013 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

As promised last week, YouGov have produced a new Welsh opinion poll for Elections in Wales. Many thanks to them. Total sample size was 1,012 Welsh adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 18-22 July 2013. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all Welsh adults (aged 18+). Without
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Local Council By-Election result

Posted on 19 July 2013 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

My friend Harry Hayfield, who posts regularly about local elections (and occasionally about other things) at PoliticalBetting.com has informed me of the result of a local council by election yesterday in Connah’s Quay, Golftyn, part of Flintshire Council. The result (with % vote and % change in vote share from the 2012 local elections) was:
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Opinion Polls in Wales

Posted on 17 July 2013 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

One of the frustrations that can face those interested in elections and party politics in Wales is the paucity of information. This has certainly often been the case with regard to opinion polling. GB-wide opinion polls by a number of companies – YouGov, ICM, Populus, Survation, ComRes, Opinium and Ipsos-Mori – are published regularly. These
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Welcome to Elections in Wales

Posted on 12 July 2013 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Welcome to Elections in Wales. This blog will be devoted to the discussion and analysis of elections, voting and political representation in Wales. But then you probably guessed that from the title. Elections and voting are central to political life in any representative democracy. Yet they are often not well understood. In Wales, elections have
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