Attitudes to Europe: Two Interesting Tables

Posted on 30 April 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

More details have now been released of the comparative study of attitudes in England, Scotland and Wales that the Wales Governance Centre here at Cardiff University has conducted with Edinburgh University, IPPR and YouGov. There’s been plenty of coverage in the press of aspects of our findings about England. But there is some interesting stuff
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Who Represents Us? AMs and MPs Compared

Posted on 29 April 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  This is the second post in a short series examining some aspects of public attitudes to devolution and the National Assembly that have not thus far been much considered or explored. (For the previous such post, see here). One of the obvious implications of devolution, but one thus far little researched, is that it
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A New Voting Intention Poll in Wales!

Posted on 24 April 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  Cardiff and Edinburgh Universities, working with IPPR and YouGov, are currently conducting detailed research examining political attitudes across England, Scotland and Wales. The full details of most of this work will not be published until the summer, when we have written up our report. However, we thought that it might be of interest to
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New Poll on Scottish and Welsh Independence

Posted on 22 April 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  Graham Henry of Media Wales has very kindly shared with me some details of a recent poll, run by YouGov on their behalf, which asked a few questions about attitudes in Wales to Scottish independence, and then also asked about independence in Wales. (You can see Graham’s report about the poll, for the Western
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How Much ‘Diffuse Support’ does the National Assembly for Wales Enjoy?

Posted on 14 April 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  I’ve spent a fair amount of time on the Blog, across various posts, exploring public attitudes to devolution. Although the Blog is entitled Elections in Wales, I think this attention to devolution is justifiable, for several reasons: First, as indicated when the Blog was founded, I define its remit to include not just elections
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Entering the 21st Century…

Posted on 7 April 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  As many of you will have noted, Elections in Wales is not the most high-tech of Blogs or websites. This is entirely down to my lack of technical competence. This is also the main reason for the occasional technical glitches on some posts, such as irregular fonts, erratic line-spacing etc. I’m trying to eliminate
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Lost, 2

Posted on 2 April 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  As promised in my previous post, I’m once more in search of details about missing polling data in Wales. I’m now on the hunt for further information about past polling for elections to the National Assembly. Below are tables of all the polling data I have been able to assemble about past National Assembly
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Lost! If found, please return to…

Posted on 1 April 2014 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

  I spent a little time over the weekend up-dating the Opinion Polls section of the site. If you go there, you’ll see up-dated figures (click on each chart to open a full-size one), and tables. However, doing this reminded me that we lack any complete record of opinion polls conducted in Wales. In my
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